[ale] What is grub > and I Killed Access to Desktop

[Marc Ferguson]

@James: My system can do a usb boot. I recall doing a net install with
Fedora 14. Something has terribly gone wrong, but I don't know what it is.
I do have another USB with F18's created from boot.iso. It brings up some
random characters, but still stalls. As for the rsyncing I did format the
drive first into ext4. What a mess.

@JD: When/if I can get back into a linux console I'll try boot-repair.

Thanks for the quick reply you two.


On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:45 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> comments in line :-)
>
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:30 AM, Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I really screwed the pooch on this one.
>>
>
> yep!
>
>
>>  I have two issues: 1) how to use GRUB recovery console and 2)
>> non-bootable LiveUSB. So; here's my first issue. I have two hard drives and
>> my original setup was:
>>
>> * sda1 - windows (marked as boot)
>> * sda2 - /boot
>> * sda3 - lvm (fedora)
>> * sdb1 - data
>>
>> With the release of Fedora 18 I figured I'll finally remove my Windows
>> partition and turn it into a home directory. I fire up gparted and do just
>> that. I'm not familiar with UUID so I simply changed the "label" to "home."
>> I then use rsync to copy my existing /home directory into the new
>> partition. All seems well...
>>
>
> So you rsynced a pile of files to an old ntfs partition that has a
> partition label of "home"?
>
>>
>> I reboot and after GRUB selects the latest instance of Fedora 17 I'm sent
>> to some sort of recovery mode. I can only log in as root. My data partition
>> is still mounted, but my newly created home partition no longer shows any
>> data in it. I wonder if it has something to do with me changing it from
>> NTFS to ext4.
>>
>
> Unless you formatted it to ext4 it has to be mounted as ntfs to be
> readable.  Did you set the partition type to Linux (type 83 I think) and
> then not format it?
>
>>
>> Either way I'm thinking that my GRUB is pointing to the wrong partition
>> and stupidly run "grub install /dev/sda1". Now when I reboot and GRUB fires
>> it immediately goes into a GRUB recovery console and I'm completely lost at
>> this point.
>>
>
> Oops. Did you mark the /boot partition as bootable? GRUB is fireing off
> but there is no bootable partition other than the old windows which is now
> called home and has no bootable data in it.
>
>>
>> At this point I feel I've gone way down into the rabbit hole. I dont'
>> mind losing the home directories since my data partition is still
>> functioning. I want to just start fresh and do a clean install of Fedora
>> 18. My main beef is I can't boot from the newly created Fedora 18 LiveUSB.
>> It works on my laptop, but not on my desktop. When in GRUB recovery I ran
>> "grub> usb" and it's supposed to show any USB's plugged in, but nothing
>> shows up.
>>
>
> Download the Fedora 18 net install CD and use that instead (assuming a
> fast ISP connection). It sounds like your system doesn't know/support USB
> booting.
>
>>
>>
>> --
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>>
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