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**lingenfr** · Dec 17, 2006, 08:37 PM

Re: major problem after partition magic. Please help

Did you have your /home on a separate partition? If so, you could just reinstall and make sure you don't format the partition with /home.

**HymenBuster** · Dec 17, 2006, 08:45 PM

Re: major problem after partition magic. Please help

wow i had the same problem b4, that grub error rly annoyed me. i fixed it in the weirdest way, i put in some win xp cd and was trying to reinstall, got an error, then rebooted and bam no more grub error.

sry i couldnt be more help bc i rly dont know how to fix it, i just had dumn luck.

im sure some1 here can tell u how to edit the GRUB program that linux installed

**mmac72** · Dec 17, 2006, 09:12 PM

Re: major problem after partition magic. Please help

If I reinstall Kbuntu, will I lose my window partition permanently? Not that I really care, but just to konw.
My home was in the same partition of kubuntu, but I have a backup of everything, therefore I will not loose much.
Is there a way to edit or sort out this Grub program?
Thanks a lot
marco

**penguin.ch** · Dec 18, 2006, 02:35 AM

Re: major problem after partition magic. Please help

Marco,

there may be a way to avoid reinstallation: boot to a "live system" (e.g. Xubuntu) and conduct a file system check on /dev/hda2.

If this fails or you feel uncomfortable with it, please post the output from the console command [sudo] fdisk -l as well as the contents of your installed system's file system table (i.e. [/dev/hda2]/etc/fstab).

My reasoning: I suspect that you have messed up the file systems residing on your harddisk - depending on the degree of (assumed) disorder, this could be sorted out.

HTH
Birdy

**adder** · Dec 18, 2006, 08:02 AM

Re: major problem after partition magic. Please help

Originally posted by mmac72

If I reinstall Kbuntu, will I lose my window partition permanently? Not that I really care, but just to konw.
My home was in the same partition of kubuntu, but I have a backup of everything, therefore I will not loose much.
Is there a way to edit or sort out this Grub program?
Thanks a lot
marco

The Error 17 means that GRUB has found the partition but that the filesystem is not recognized.

You will not loose your Windows partition.
I had a similar problem yesterday...(I messed with the menu.lst....)
Gather some information:
Boot your computer with any live linux cd and type this in a terminal window:
less /etc/fstab
less /boot/grub/menu.lst
and compare them...

When you boot your computer do you get to the GRUB menu? If so, highlight the Kubuntu entry and press "e" to edit it and then the tab-key for options.
- Use the information gathered from your fstab !

You can try and edit as many times as you wish without destroying anything. Once the system has booted you can fix GRUB.

**mmac72** · Dec 18, 2006, 10:07 AM

Re: major problem after partition magic. Please help

That's what I get.

Disk /dev/hda: 30.0 GB, 30005821440 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3648 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 4 32098+ de Dell Utility
/dev/hda2 * 5 1215 9727357+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda4 1216 3647 19535040 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 1917 2681 6144831 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 2682 2746 522081 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda7 2747 3647 7237251 b W95 FAT32

this is the content of /etc/fstab

nionfs / unionfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nosuid,nodev 0 0
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0

then I had problem with hda2, something weird comes up

ubuntu@ubuntu:/$ sudo less /dev/hda2
/dev/hda2 is not a regular file (use -f to see it)
ubuntu@ubuntu:/$ sudo less -f /dev/hda2

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/dev/hda2

I do not know what this last mean, but I fear the worse!
What shall I do now?
marco

**penguin.ch** · Dec 18, 2006, 10:17 AM

Re: major problem after partition magic. Please help

Marco,

as one can learn from your recent posting, /dev/hda2 is hosting your Windoze system, while Linux' root file system is residing on /dev/hda5. That is interesting, but not helpful in the absence of further information as mentioned before, i.e. the contents of /dev/hda5/boot/grub/menu.lst as well as of /dev/hda5/etc/fstab (the latter one unabridged).

**mmac72** · Dec 18, 2006, 10:34 AM

Re: major problem after partition magic. Please help

Sorry guys,
the problem is that I cannot go into the /dev/hda5 directory

ubuntu@ubuntu:/dev$ cd hda5
bash: cd: hda5: Not a directory
ubuntu@ubuntu:/dev$ ls -la
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 15160 2006-12-18 11:24 .
drwxrwxrwt 15 root root 260 2006-12-18 10:27 ..
crw-rw---- 1 root root 10, 62 2006-12-18 10:22 acpi
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 12 2006-12-18 10:21 adsp
crw-rw---- 1 root video 10, 175 2006-12-18 10:21 agpgart
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 4 2006-12-18 10:21 audio
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 60 2006-12-18 10:20 bus
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2006-12-18 10:21 cdrom -> hdb
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2006-12-18 10:21 cdrw -> hdb
crw------- 1 root root 5, 1 2006-12-18 10:22 console
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2006-12-18 10:21 core -> /proc/kcore
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 120 2006-12-18 10:20 disk
crw-rw---- 1 root audio 14, 3 2006-12-18 10:21 dsp
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 3 2006-12-18 10:21 dvd -> hdb
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 200 2006-12-18 10:21 evms
crw-rw---- 1 root video 29, 0 2006-12-18 10:20 fb0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2006-12-18 10:21 fd -> /proc/self/fd
brw-rw---- 1 root floppy 2, 0 2006-12-18 10:21 fd0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 7 2006-12-18 10:20 full
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 0 2006-12-18 10:20 hda
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 1 2006-12-18 10:20 hda1
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 2 2006-12-18 10:20 hda2
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 4 2006-12-18 10:20 hda4
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 5 2006-12-18 10:20 hda5
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 6 2006-12-18 10:20 hda6
brw-rw---- 1 root disk 3, 7 2006-12-18 10:20 hda7
brw-rw---- 1 root cdrom 3, 64 2006-12-18 10:20 hdb

The partition magic (that from now on I will call partition TRAGIC) crashed just after it resized the window partition, and started to move the linux partition.

Why cannot I acces the dev/hda5 ? Did partition Tragic corrupt it?

Thanks very much,

Marco

**adder** · Dec 18, 2006, 12:24 PM

Re: major problem after partition magic. Please help

Originally posted by mmac72

Sorry guys,
the problem is that I cannot go into the /dev/hda5 directory

ubuntu@ubuntu:/dev$ cd hda5
bash: cd: hda5: Not a directory
ubuntu@ubuntu:/dev$ ls -la

Well /dev/hda5 IS NOT a directory, it is a device
Try this when mounting:
First create the directory hda5, then mount the device hda5 in the directory hda5:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mkdir /mnt/hda5
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount /dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5

then you should be able to see the content, using Konqueror: media:/

**adder** · Dec 18, 2006, 01:22 PM

Re: major problem after partition magic. Please help

I can recommend the SUPER GRUB DISK,
it is a small .iso or floppy .img which contain automated
repair options as well as other options to repair or start an istalled system that uses GRUB.

Have a look at:
http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzo...bDiskPage.html

Good to have as a backup option.

**mmac72** · Dec 18, 2006, 01:38 PM

Re: major problem after partition magic. Please help

Thanks everyone for their help. I finally reinstalled everything and said goodbay for ever also to the window partition. That's good afterall. All the partition were corrupted, maybe not irreversibly but it would have taken too long to sort them out.

Best,
Marco

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