Boot Failure, need some help

[Larry Shields]

Nils Kassube wrote:
> Larry Shields wrote:
>   
>> *I have a 120gb hd, which use to work just fine, but the other day I
>> installed it and at when booting up, it says no filesystem please
>> insert a system disk...
>>
>> After trying to access it using knoppix 5.1, it shows the hd as hda,
>> but when I try to mount it, it too says could not mount device hda, I
>> can not determine the filesystem type and none was specified...
>>     
>
> If you use the Ubuntu live CD (I'm not familiar with Knoppix), what is the 
> output of "sudo fdisk -l"? From that you can determine which is the 
> partition with the Ubuntu installation. It is surely NOT /dev/hda but 
> more likely /dev/hda1. Probably these pages will help to restore the boot 
> loader:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GrubHowto
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows
>
>
> Nils
>
>   
*Hello Nils,

Thanks for the reply - - I went to those sites you listed, and tried 
different things, but none seem to work for me...

So I just gave up and install ubuntu 7.10 on the 120gb hd...

Have a great day!

Larry
*

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