How To Go INTO RESCUE Mode Of Alreadty INSTALLED FEDORA!!

[Jyotishmaan]

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Dear All,

This is  Jyotishmaan   Ray.    I  have already installed fedora linux version 7. I get the following options:-

Fedora (2.6.22.1-41.fc7)
Fedora (2.6.20-2925.13.fc7xen)
Fedora (2.6.20-2925.9.fc7xen)
Fedora(2.6.21-1.3194.fc7)

Now the thing is that- i had installed LDAP server for users authentication (downloaded from the openldap site). After that for authentication, i had to change one file named nsswitch.conf file . For the first time when i changed this file as per my need, i got the "segmentaion fault" which made the system unbootable. But then i went into the single mode booting from the main menu.

After that, i changed the nsswitch.conf file (revert back to the original format) and the system was bootable. since i dint have much idea of authentication, i had to revert back each time to nsswitch.conf file and comment one line and check if LDAP server was authenticating the users or not.

Now after i commented one line in nsswitch.conf file, the system BOOTs but then after the taking the logind : root it does not show the passoword prompt-the reason being that the password file is not being read while the system boots.

I  tried several times to skip, the whole process, from the main menu, but then it does  boots in "single mode" too.

Now, from the fedora's site, i have come to know, that there is way to boot the system in :-

Rescue Installed System, But then How To do ??

How can i go into that mode  ;- Rescue Installed System Boot??

Unless i uncomment that line in nsswitch.conf file OF LDAP server, the system will remain un usable as no body can log into the server.

Please HELP, urgently. Your help would be highly solicited by me, as a newbie FEDORA.

I am trying since yesterday, night!!!! Please HELP!!!!!!!


Thanking You In Anticipation,

With Best Regards,

Jyotishmaan Ray

 

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[strobeligh]

check here down the page:

http://linuxidiotnote.blogspot.com/ [1]

"If you install XP, then Fedora 7 on the same PC. Grub will be used as a loader for systems. However, If your XP corrupted, and re-installed. Grub will be lost. You can follow the operation listed below to resume Grub.

How to resume Grub on a XP/Fedora system:

After Boot-up using Fedora 7 Install Disk, there are four option:

- Install or upgrade an existing system
- Install or upgrade an existing system (text mode)
- Rescue installed system
- Boot from local drive

Select the 3rd option, Rescue installed system.

Follow the steps, until Rescue ask "Continue" to find your Linux installation and mount it ..., "Read-Only" or "Skip". Select "Skip".

Now you are in # shell.

type grub, the shell will change to grub>
....#grub

To check your Linux partition
grub> root (hd0,[TAB]

In my case, it's:
Possible partitions are:
Partition num: 0, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x07
Partition num: 1, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
Partition num: 2, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x8e

Actually I don't know the meaning. But I guess partition 1 is my Linux.

grub> root (hd0,1)
grub> setup (hd0)

Now you can re-boot, and the Grub loader have been re-loaded."


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[1] http://linuxidiotnote.blogspot.com/


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[Tim-163]

On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 05:16 +0200, ehawk wrote:

> To check your Linux partition
> grub> root (hd0,[TAB]
>
> In my case, it's:
> Possible partitions are:
> Partition num: 0, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x07
> Partition num: 1, Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> Partition num: 2, Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x8e
>
> Actually I don't know the meaning. But I guess partition 1 is my
> Linux.
>

Those two partition types are unknown to *grub*, the one it does know
about is a Linux ext2 file system, which probably is the boot partition
(given the lack of other known ones).

If you look up the partition types, 07 is HPFS/NTFS (a Windows file
system), and 8e is Linux LVM (the rest of your Linux system).

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