Problem in booting after resizing partition

**rahulgup** · 03-05-2005

I have RedHat Linux and Win XP on my machine and was using GRUB to boot either of them. It was working fine. I wanted to move some extra space from Linux partition to windows. So I used Partition Magic to free some space on Linux partition and merged it with Windows partition.

Now when I boot, I am taken to the GRUB command prompt. I tried to boot using Linux Intallation CD and also Win XP installation CD, but I always get to that grub command prompt. I don't know what to do from there. Any pointers will be helpful.

Thanks.

**dylunio** · 03-05-2005

At the grub> prompt try the following:

Code:

grub> root &#40;hdX,X&#41;
   &#40;it'll say somthing about the file system found&#41;
grub> kernel /vmlinuz-<tab> ro root=/dev/hdXX rhgb
   &#40;it'll say something else&#41;
grub> initrd /init<tab>
   &#40;I don't think it says anything, it just waits for...&#41;
grub> boot

it was taken from here

rememebr to replace all the big X with the apropriate hard drive and partition numbers.

dylunio

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