How to recover Fedora Core 5?

Leo sdl.web at gmail.com
Thu Sep 28 08:27:08 UTC 2006


On Thu, 28/09/06 04:31 +0100, Vinicius wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have installed a Windows XP on another partition than my FC5. The system boot
> on Windows. I'm unable to do a dual-boot FC5 and XP.
> The steps followed are below:
>
> 1. Boot from DVD, then on the prompt: linux rescue;
> 2. from the rescue mode prompt: chroot /mnt/sysimage;
> 3. then: /sbin/grub-install /dev/hda.
>
> So, occurs an error about stage1 incomplete or something like that.
>
> Any ideas, please?
>
>
> TIA,
> Vinicius.

Could you list your partitions?

 1. fdisk /dev/hda
 2. 'p' to print partition table
 3. 'q' to exit fdisk

Attach the output in step 2 to the list. People might be able to help.

-- 
Leo




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