Re: I can't boot anymore!

[Fritz Wettstein <fwenospam@gmx.ch>]

Axel Gallus wrote:
> Yesterday, i have resized my debian partition with partition magic from
> windows.
> After that, i was not able to boot from that debian partition - what happens
> is that
> it displays "GRUB" and the system halts.
>
> So i made a netinstall cd (ca.180MB http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/) and
> tried a
> "rescue root=/dev/hda2" , but it says it can not find a kernel called
> rescue.
>
> Then i tried a "linux26 root=/dev/hda2" , and it says "unable to mount root
> fs on unknown-block(0,0)".
>
>
> So, how can i restore my system?
>
> Greetings
>
> A.Gallus
>
>
>   

I don't knw GRUB but in the same situation with lilo I install from an 
iso-image until the point where it wants to partition the disk.
At this point change to a caonsole (ALT-CTL-F2), mount the disk in 
question on /target, chroot /target and then lilo, CTRL-D umount /target 
and reboot.
Fritz