Mugsy323

Originally posted by danleff: Quote: I did not ask you to edit the device.map file, just to tell us what the contents of it are. To make matters worse, my psu blew in the middle of all this, so I'm going off memory at this point on what my settings are/show. Quote: It just occured to me, did you accept all the defaults when setting up Fedora, including partitioning the drive? It's been a while, but from my best memory, yes. I dedicated an entire 160gb physical drive to Fedora in one big partition. Quote: But to answer your question, when you boot from the Fedora installation disk and get the installation splash screen, you can type in linux rescue. This gets you to the rescue command line, once the booting process finishes. Then you would type in chroot /mnt/sysimage. Yes, this is what I did to reinstall grub. Quote: before you do this, did you attempt to change the boot order in the bios at any point of the process, No. Though in resolving my psu issue, I've since had to change my cd drive to first in the bios boot order. But switching it back to boot from hd did not resolve the issue. I can't believe such a simple mistake like typing "hd0" instead of "hda" could cause so much trouble. :-/ Thanks.

Since I can now only access my Linux drive from my installation DVD, how do I edit "device.map"? Thanks.

Thanks for the reply. Sorry that I didn't go into more detail on my config as I didn't want to "over-complicate" things. I have three physical hard drives in my system. XP is on drive-0 and has two partitions. Drive-1 is one 80gb NTFS partition. Linux Fedora (Core 4 I believe) is on its own 160gb drive all to itself (slaved off the second IDE cable). From memory, Grub shows fd0, hda and hdd as the recognized drives (though I don't access my NTFS hda from Linux, so it's not listed when running Gnome (my gui). I'll check with fdisk and grub-install when I'm back up and running (my p/s blew in the middle of this growing nightmare... unrelated to this issue). Thanks.

HELP! (I'm using an old 300MHz notebook just to type this!) After I was forced to reformat and reinstall XP, I (natually) had to reinstall GRUB so I could access my Linux installation (on a different physical drive). I accidentally typed "grub-install /dev/hd0" ...instead of "grub-install /dev/hda" Now when I boot, I get the dreaded "Error 17" and can't boot neither Linux nor XP (directory listings show both drives' contents are still there). I tried going back and doing it right ("grub-install /dev/hda") several times, but I'm still getting "Error 17" on boot. I do NOT want to reinstall Fedora as I just got it set up just right. Likewise, I have more than one Windows partition on drive-0 ("hda"), so I'm too afraid to attempt the "fixmbr" method (mentioned elsewhere on here) from XP's Rescue Mode. I'm praying there is a simple fix to this simple mistake. HELP!