GRUB menu lost

[KitchM]

On Fedora 16 I have somehow lost my GRUB menu. All I get upon booting is a screen that gives me the GRUB prompt:

grub>

I had been configuring my new install with various program and utility installations. I have chosen various Desktop Environments and various Logon interface screens. I have tried GRUB and GRUB2. (I have no idea what I had to begin with because it did not say and documentation is not clear. )

Perhaps something happened during one of the installs and uninstalls. Who knows.

If I attempt to use the provided prompt with the tab key and create something like "root (hd0,1)", it doesn't recognize 'root'.

I can't use the install disk because the designers forgot to give a menu option to recover the grub menu.

I can't find a similar problem mentioned anywhere on the 'Net.

Does anyone know how I can recover without a reinstall?

Thanks.

[David Batson]

I was in a similar situation after trying to install Grub 2 from Arch Linux. See if the following is any help.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=130673

[VernDog]

I'm thinking you have a livecd that you used to install F16. If so fire that up and use this method to get grub back.

[Fedora16 has grub.cfg inside /boot/grub2 folder. ]

[KitchM]

I have upgraded the computer and replaced some bad parts. Currently, my choice is to upgrade to 17 or reinstall 16. There is no recovery and there is no upgrade of 16.

It appears that the problem has to do with LVM. There seems to be no way to mount LVM partitions on their own, which do show up as existing during an install proceedure (I stopped it before changes were made). I used Boot-Repair, and Ubuntu Secure Remix with boot repair. I was able to finally obtain a report thru the latter at http://paste.ubuntu.com/1219427/, but GRUB2 could not be recovered.

The deal appears to be that the only choice is to find a way to mount the partitions and then copy off what I want to save. Unfortunately, I don't know how to do that.