[SOLVED] Grub: No Such Partition

josh91 · #1 6th May 2012, 11:28 PM

My laptop came installed with windows 7 and I set it up to dual boot with Ubuntu and for a long time everything was good. Then I decided I wanted to move to Fedora 16 and for the past month or so I've been triple booting Windows 7, Ubuntu, and Fedora. Today I decided to get rid of Ubuntu since I've copied all the relevant files over to Fedora, so I boot into GParted, delete Ubuntu and extend Fedora, reboot and now Grub has gone stupid. I start up my computer and Grub tells me "No such partition" and it enters rescue mode.

I'm usually pretty good at fixing my own problems but I've spent about four hours trying to fix this and I have gotten nowhere. I've got a live usb of Fedora 16 and want to get my system back into working order.

Thank you.

***glennzo*** · #2 6th May 2012, 11:52 PM

One option may be to boot with the Fedora install DVD and run rescue mode to reinstall grub.

josh91 · #3 7th May 2012, 12:04 AM

How would I do that? And I assume I can do the same process via the live usb because my laptop doesn't have a DVD drive and my computer refuses to boot from my external drive.

***glennzo*** · #4 7th May 2012, 12:27 AM

I'm not so sure that there is a rescue mode option on the Live USB, which I assume is the same as the Live CD?

josh91 · #5 7th May 2012, 05:08 AM

That is what I have begun to suspect, I downloaded the iso from the Fedora website and used UNetbootin make it bootable. I am still playing around with it to be totally sure, but I haven't seen anything that screams rescue mode as yet.
Is there anyway to boot into Fedora through Grub rescue and then just do whatever needs to be done from there?

---------- Post added 7th May 2012 at 04:08 AM ---------- Previous post was 6th May 2012 at 11:36 PM ----------

I figured it out, I followed this thread and it looks like everything is back to normal. http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/sho...d.php?t=246798 My Grub menu is still cluttered with now non existent Ubuntu choices but I know that's easy enough to sort out. And this can be done from a live usb without using rescue mode.

sidebrnz · #6 7th May 2012, 06:01 AM

Sorry to come in late, but I thought you might want to know what happened. When you removed Ubuntu and the partition containing it, you changed the partition number of your Fedora installation. If it were originally on your third partition (hda2, because Grub starts counting at zero.) it became the second, and there wasn't any third partition for Grub to find. Thus, you had to reinstall Grub to get the partition numbering right.