Need help never did this before?!?!?!?!?

[arhunter]

Ok shut down computer after a long day of work, this morning turn it on and all I get is the following prompt.

>Grub 1.1 ____



The underline is a blinking cursor.

So I shut down and restart ie power off power on same result ok now what...

Any ideas...

[Bro.Tiag]

Ok shut down computer after a long day of work, this morning turn it on and all I get is the following prompt.

>Grub 1.1 ____



The underline is a blinking cursor.

So I shut down and restart ie power off power on same result ok now what...

Any ideas...
Drop a LiveCD, one that has grub, in the try & reboot. When the grub menu comes up hit the "c" key for the grub command line prompt. Now type the following;
root (X,Y)
setup (hd0)
reboot
The red X is the hard drive that yur FOS install is on. The blue Y is the partition. The green hd0 is yur mbr. Remember that grub starts with Zero (0).

Tell us what happens.

Cheers

[ernieg92]

Drop a LiveCD, one that has grub, in the try & reboot. When the grub menu comes up hit the "c" key for the grub command line prompt. Now type the following;
root (X,Y)
setup (hd0)
reboot
The red X is the hard drive that yur FOS install is on. The blue Y is the partition. The green hd0 is yur mbr. Remember that grub starts with Zero (0).

Tell us what happens.

CheersFor clarification, you need to replace the X, Y, and hd0 with applicable numbers. For example, if Linspire is installed on the 2nd partition of the primary hard drive, then it would be root (0,1) and setup (hd0).

I've used this method before -- but needed help with syntax. Hope it works but post back any issues you have.