<p dir="ltr">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.</p>
<p dir="ltr">I would make Linux the only bootable os and relegate windows to VM status.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 31, 2015 7:21 AM, "Paul Cartwright" <<a href="mailto:pbcartwright@gmail.com">pbcartwright@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">ok, I'm not sure I understand how this works... I blew away my sda to<br>
try to rebuild windows 7 ( bad idea). I got a nice recovery USB stick<br>
from Dell that... didn't fix it. I'm thinking I am missing the drivers<br>
for the new Seagate ST3100 3TB drive I installed as sda ( that' another<br>
thread..)<br>
so my root & /home partitions are on sdb, BUT I had swap on sda (<br>
another bad idea).. once I wiped sda, fedora won't boot, complains about<br>
missing partition... removed swap from fstab and it STILL won't boot.<br>
still complains about missing swap. I don't know where it is looking for<br>
that info, but I'm guessing it is in /boot/System.map.xxxxxx<br>
<br>
ANYWAY, all I have now in /boot is<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 148559 Jan 19 11:06 config-3.18.3-201.fc21.x86_64<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19985816 Jan 30 16:28<br>
initramfs-3.18.3-201.fc21.x86_64.img<br>
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 566383 Sep 15 23:17 initrd-plymouth.img<br>
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 182704 Oct 21 06:08 memtest86+-5.01<br>
-rw------- 1 root root 2992379 Jan 19 11:06<br>
System.map-3.18.3-201.fc21.x86_64<br>
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 5628280 Oct 27 18:45<br>
vmlinuz-0-rescue-78db501f7f8d403c938e4d646de9a9c4<br>
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5795320 Jan 19 11:06<br>
vmlinuz-3.18.3-201.fc21.x86_64<br>
<br>
<br>
yet when I boot into rescue I am running<br>
uname -a<br>
Linux pauls-server 3.16.1-301.fc21.x86_64 #1 SMP Mon Aug 25 13:06:39 UTC<br>
2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux<br>
<br>
is 3.16 the rescue kernel??<br>
<br>
--<br>
Paul Cartwright<br>
Registered Linux User #367800 and new counter #561587<br>
<br>
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