hantsmike
March 14th, 2009, 02:04 PM
Hello
I'm a Windows refugee to Mint – a version of Ubuntu. I have dual boot machine which was running perfectly but had aquired an unwanted partition which I tried to delete using partition editor. This went wrong and when I now turn on the computer to run GRUB all I get is Error 17 and the boot process stops prior to running GRUB. I can get into the bios and I've changed to load from CD but it will not work I've tried various Linux (mint and ubuntu) and windows rescue and boot CD / DVD disks ( I have another working computer) and the only thing that works is BG-Rescue Linux. (http://www.giannone.eu/rescue/current/ ) which loads from two floppys (after I told the BIOS to run from floppy) . BGR then boots from RAM and takes me to the command line
rescue:/#
The problem is that I have little idea of what to do next . I think I should try and get it to boot and then reinstall from my Linux Mint DVD but do not know what the correct command is .
Can any-one guide me as to how I reload what ever it is I need to reload?.Unfortunately I do not have any command line experience. I would prefer to keep my windows partition (c drive) because it such a pain to reload and I need it for work related software. There is no data I need to preserve on the machine and obviously reloading linux is easy. The rescue floppys that work contain also the following tools
LINUX-Kernel**2.4.36.2
with lzma support
with inittar support
with cloop*2.01 support
with fuse*2.5.3 support
with NTFS*2.1.6b support
with DVDRW*Patch
with SC92031 Ethernet Adapter Patch
with the PocketBoy*Patch
uClibc**0.9.29
BusyBox**1.9.2
with losetup-2.4 patch
/++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\
|[, [[, adjtimex, ar, ash, awk, basename, bunzip2, bzcat, bzip2, cal, cat,|
|chgrp, chmod, chown, chroot, chvt, clear, cmp, cp, cpio, cttyhack, cut, date,|
|dd, deallocvt, devfsd, df, dirname, dmesg, dos2unix, dpkg, dpkg-deb, du,|
|dumpkmap, echo, egrep, env, expr, false, fdflush, fdformat, fdisk, fgrep, find,|
|fold, free, freeramdisk, fsck.minix, ftpget, ftpput, getopt, grep, gunzip,|
|gzip, halt, hd, hdparm, head, hexdump, hostname, hwclock, id, ifconfig, init,|
|insmod, install, kbd_mode, kill, killall, klogd, length, less, ln, loadfont,|
|loadkmap, logger, logname, losetup, ls, lsmod, lzmacat, makedevs, md5sum, mesg,|
|mkdir, mkfifo, mkfs.minix, mknod, mkswap, mktemp, modprobe, more, mount, mv,|
|nameif, nc, netstat, nslookup, od, openvt, pidof, ping, pipe_progress,|
|pivot_root, poweroff, printf, ps, pwd, rdate, readlink, realpath, reboot,|
|renice, reset, rm, rmdir, rmmod, route, rpm, rpm2cpio, sed, setkeycodes, sh,|
|sha1sum, sleep, sort, split, stty, swapoff, swapon, switch_root, sync, sysctl,|
|syslogd, tail, tar, tee, telnet, test, tftp, time, top, touch, tr, traceroute,|
|true, tty, udhcpc, umount, uname, uncompress, uniq, unix2dos, unlzma, unzip,|
|uptime, usleep, uudecode, uuencode, vconfig, vi, watch, wc, wget, which, xargs,|
|yes, zcat |
\************************************************* *******************************/
Filesystem-Tools:
cramfs**1.1
dosfstools**2.11
e2fsprogs**1.40.7
ntfsprogs**2.0.0
ntfs-3g**1.2310
progsreiserfs**0.3.0.5
reiserfsck**3.6.20
umsdos-utils**1.32
Disk-Tools:
cloop**2.05
dd_rescue**1.14
gpart**0.1h* * (with support for ReiserFS 3.6)
lilo**22.8
mdadm**2.6.4
ms-sys**2.1.3
syslinux**3.60
tphdisk
fdisk and hdparm are integrated in BusyBox
Compression-Utilities:
cabextract**0.6
rzip**2.1
zip**2.32
ar, bzip2, cpio, dpkg, dpkg-deb, gzip, rpm, rpm2cpio, tar, uncompress, unlzma and unzip are integrated in BusyBox
cmdftp**0.7.6
linld**0.97
loadlin**1.6c
pcmcia-cardmgr**3.2.8
regutils**0.10
smbclient**1.9.18p8* * (with pipe support)
Supported Filesystems: cramfs, devfs, ext2, ext3, iso9660, minix, msdos, ntfs 2.1.6b, ntfs-3g (rw), proc, ramfs, reiserfs, tmpfs, udf, umsdos, vfat, xfs
Network filesystem: nfs
Many thanks.
I'm a Windows refugee to Mint – a version of Ubuntu. I have dual boot machine which was running perfectly but had aquired an unwanted partition which I tried to delete using partition editor. This went wrong and when I now turn on the computer to run GRUB all I get is Error 17 and the boot process stops prior to running GRUB. I can get into the bios and I've changed to load from CD but it will not work I've tried various Linux (mint and ubuntu) and windows rescue and boot CD / DVD disks ( I have another working computer) and the only thing that works is BG-Rescue Linux. (http://www.giannone.eu/rescue/current/ ) which loads from two floppys (after I told the BIOS to run from floppy) . BGR then boots from RAM and takes me to the command line
rescue:/#
The problem is that I have little idea of what to do next . I think I should try and get it to boot and then reinstall from my Linux Mint DVD but do not know what the correct command is .
Can any-one guide me as to how I reload what ever it is I need to reload?.Unfortunately I do not have any command line experience. I would prefer to keep my windows partition (c drive) because it such a pain to reload and I need it for work related software. There is no data I need to preserve on the machine and obviously reloading linux is easy. The rescue floppys that work contain also the following tools
LINUX-Kernel**2.4.36.2
with lzma support
with inittar support
with cloop*2.01 support
with fuse*2.5.3 support
with NTFS*2.1.6b support
with DVDRW*Patch
with SC92031 Ethernet Adapter Patch
with the PocketBoy*Patch
uClibc**0.9.29
BusyBox**1.9.2
with losetup-2.4 patch
/++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++\
|[, [[, adjtimex, ar, ash, awk, basename, bunzip2, bzcat, bzip2, cal, cat,|
|chgrp, chmod, chown, chroot, chvt, clear, cmp, cp, cpio, cttyhack, cut, date,|
|dd, deallocvt, devfsd, df, dirname, dmesg, dos2unix, dpkg, dpkg-deb, du,|
|dumpkmap, echo, egrep, env, expr, false, fdflush, fdformat, fdisk, fgrep, find,|
|fold, free, freeramdisk, fsck.minix, ftpget, ftpput, getopt, grep, gunzip,|
|gzip, halt, hd, hdparm, head, hexdump, hostname, hwclock, id, ifconfig, init,|
|insmod, install, kbd_mode, kill, killall, klogd, length, less, ln, loadfont,|
|loadkmap, logger, logname, losetup, ls, lsmod, lzmacat, makedevs, md5sum, mesg,|
|mkdir, mkfifo, mkfs.minix, mknod, mkswap, mktemp, modprobe, more, mount, mv,|
|nameif, nc, netstat, nslookup, od, openvt, pidof, ping, pipe_progress,|
|pivot_root, poweroff, printf, ps, pwd, rdate, readlink, realpath, reboot,|
|renice, reset, rm, rmdir, rmmod, route, rpm, rpm2cpio, sed, setkeycodes, sh,|
|sha1sum, sleep, sort, split, stty, swapoff, swapon, switch_root, sync, sysctl,|
|syslogd, tail, tar, tee, telnet, test, tftp, time, top, touch, tr, traceroute,|
|true, tty, udhcpc, umount, uname, uncompress, uniq, unix2dos, unlzma, unzip,|
|uptime, usleep, uudecode, uuencode, vconfig, vi, watch, wc, wget, which, xargs,|
|yes, zcat |
\************************************************* *******************************/
Filesystem-Tools:
cramfs**1.1
dosfstools**2.11
e2fsprogs**1.40.7
ntfsprogs**2.0.0
ntfs-3g**1.2310
progsreiserfs**0.3.0.5
reiserfsck**3.6.20
umsdos-utils**1.32
Disk-Tools:
cloop**2.05
dd_rescue**1.14
gpart**0.1h* * (with support for ReiserFS 3.6)
lilo**22.8
mdadm**2.6.4
ms-sys**2.1.3
syslinux**3.60
tphdisk
fdisk and hdparm are integrated in BusyBox
Compression-Utilities:
cabextract**0.6
rzip**2.1
zip**2.32
ar, bzip2, cpio, dpkg, dpkg-deb, gzip, rpm, rpm2cpio, tar, uncompress, unlzma and unzip are integrated in BusyBox
cmdftp**0.7.6
linld**0.97
loadlin**1.6c
pcmcia-cardmgr**3.2.8
regutils**0.10
smbclient**1.9.18p8* * (with pipe support)
Supported Filesystems: cramfs, devfs, ext2, ext3, iso9660, minix, msdos, ntfs 2.1.6b, ntfs-3g (rw), proc, ramfs, reiserfs, tmpfs, udf, umsdos, vfat, xfs
Network filesystem: nfs
Many thanks.