skorchio

Evening all, My system runs XP pro and Mandrake 9.1, dualboot with the grub bootloader. I recently used Partition magic to create a new partition (logical) for windows data on my drive. It was doing its thing, so I left the machine to its devices. When I came back, its in a screen with a "grub>" prompt. Apparently minimal BASH line editing is supported at this level. I can get into the BIOS setup, but cant do anything from there. have I got to reconfigure the bootloader now that I have a new partition? Anyone know how to do that? I cant get pst this grub prompt.... Cheers Irish Geoff skorchio@hotmail.com

Jim you've saved the day mate, thanks I got the windows boot sector restored, the rest can wait Thank you! Geoff Smith

Thanks guys Danleff, I dont have the PMagic CD, the software was installed. No I didn't make PM boot floppies, my machine doesn't even have a floppy drive. as far as I remember, I used the default and recommended location for the new logical partition, which was at the front of the extended partition. looks like this: |----NTFS-----| {|-new NTFS-| |linux swap| |linux|} where the first NTFS is the primary partition, the curly brackets denote the extended partition, the others being logical partitions thereof. I dont have my Mnadrake CDs here, I am on a ship off the coast Borneo for the next 3 weeks!!!! Surely there is a way to configure ther bootloader from the grub prompt, if not, it sounds like I'm up the creek no paddle etc etc...