can't help but feel partially to blame...

[jay105]

hi guys

after trying out dual-booting some different distros on my machine, i decided to get rid of an lucid studio partition using g-parted. when i rebooted my computer with a regular lucid CD to replace it, i get nothing happening except frantic whirring from my DVD drive, and after a while i a error message saying

UNKNOWN FILESYSTEM
GRUB RESCUE>

i have tried a number of CD's, different distro and there is a fully functional mint partition still on my HD. nothing i do seems to help.

cheers for any help

[oz]

If you deleted any partitions, it changes the partition numbering on your system, so you'll need to edit your GRUB configuration file accordingly, and possibly the fstab file, too.

[jay105]

is there any page or resources you could point me in the direction of as to fixing the problem?

thanks

[oz]

Ubuntu has a couple of nice HowTos for working with GRUB:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GrubHowto

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2

You can check fdisk to see how your partitions are laid out now:

fdisk -l

Then edit the necessary files accordingly. Keep in mind you'll need root permissions to edit the GRUB configuration file and fstab file.


A couple of other nice GRUB Tutorials can be found here:

GRUB bootloader - Full tutorial

GRUB 2 bootloader - Full tutorial