[ale] grub stupid question

[Jim Kinney]

At some point, it makes sense to use a live boot CD, mount a USB drive,
copy important files off sdb, wipe the box and start over.

I would make Linux the only bootable os and relegate windows to VM status.
On Jan 31, 2015 7:21 AM, "Paul Cartwright" <pbcartwright at gmail.com> wrote:

> ok, I'm not sure I  understand how this works... I blew away my sda to
> try to rebuild windows 7 ( bad idea). I got a nice recovery USB stick
> from Dell that... didn't fix it. I'm thinking I am missing the drivers
> for the new Seagate ST3100 3TB drive I installed as sda ( that' another
> thread..)
> so my root & /home partitions are on sdb, BUT I had swap on sda (
> another bad idea).. once I wiped sda, fedora won't boot, complains about
> missing partition... removed swap from fstab and it STILL won't boot.
> still complains about missing swap. I don't know where it is looking for
> that info, but I'm guessing it is in /boot/System.map.xxxxxx
>
> ANYWAY, all I have now in /boot is
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root   148559 Jan 19 11:06 config-3.18.3-201.fc21.x86_64
> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 19985816 Jan 30 16:28
> initramfs-3.18.3-201.fc21.x86_64.img
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root   566383 Sep 15 23:17 initrd-plymouth.img
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root   182704 Oct 21 06:08 memtest86+-5.01
> -rw-------  1 root root  2992379 Jan 19 11:06
> System.map-3.18.3-201.fc21.x86_64
> -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root  5628280 Oct 27 18:45
> vmlinuz-0-rescue-78db501f7f8d403c938e4d646de9a9c4
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root root  5795320 Jan 19 11:06
> vmlinuz-3.18.3-201.fc21.x86_64
>
>
> yet when I boot into rescue I am running
> uname -a
> Linux pauls-server 3.16.1-301.fc21.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Aug 25 13:06:39 UTC
> 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> is 3.16 the rescue kernel??
>
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> Paul Cartwright
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