[ale] grub stupid question

[Michael Trausch]

I just use QCOW2 containers. When things get borked, it's very easy and efficient to restore. :)

They're not just for VMs anymore!

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> On Jan 31, 2015, at 8:45 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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??
>> 
>> --
>> Paul Cartwright
>> Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587
>> 
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