/boot partition corrupt...?

[bergerc]

My laptop is set up to dual boot Windows XP and SuSE Linux 10.1 using GRUB.

The first partition on the HDD contains XP, the second is another NTFS partition, the third is an extended partition (more details in a mo) and the fourth is a recovery partition for XP.

The extended partition is divided as follows:

ext2 partition for the root filesystem for Linux, including the /boot directory used by GRUB
Linux swap partition
Linux LVM containing the remainder of the Linux filesystems

When I boot up Grub dumps me directly into its CLI during Stage 2, instead of presenting the usual boot menu.

I managed to make the system boot into XP after reading the GRUB manual but I need to boot into Linux.

Using my Ultimate Boot CD I was able to establish that the ext2 filesystem containing the /boot directory is corrupt, but I haven't a clue how to go about fixing it.

Can anyone give me some pointers?

Thanks,

Charles.

[devils casper]

Using my Ultimate Boot CD I was able to establish that the ext2 filesystem containing the /boot directory is corrupt, but I haven't a clue how to go about fixing it.

what do you mean by corrupt? is it inaccessible or contents erased or what?
boot up in Rescue Mode using SuSe Installation CD/DVD and check the contents of /boot partition. does it has grub folder, vmlinuz and initrd files?

[bergerc]

I'm not quite sure what the extent of the problem is. I can see an extfs2 partition on the HDD using one of the filesystem tools on UBCD so I suppose the partition is still there but isn't readable by GRUB.

I will attempt what you suggest when I get home tonight, see what I can do and report back.