I installed full antiX12 on my Acer Atom netpad. It has three partitions: sda1 - Windows repair partition, sda2 - windows xp and sda3 - Linux partition -swap and sda4 - Linux root. I installed Grub to sda ( that was only option available in installer). After I tried to restart antiX from hard drive Grub gave me mesage" file system unknown" and went to grub rescue prompt. Not a single command of grub rescue works. I had to CTRL_ALT_Del to restart system with Live CD. Using it I found that my grub/device.map has only one entry:
(hd0) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WDserial number. How can I fix this or manualy (if possible) enter path for windows and antiX in order to boot?
Thanks.

Hye o.b.

Can you post the content of /boot/grub/menu.lst (mounting sda4 from a live session)?

At the grub menu, select the antiX entry, press 'e' to edit
You should see something like on the first line:
root (hd0,0)
select the line
press e
edit:
root (hd0,3)
for /dev/sda4 (grub numbers the devices starting with 0)
and then 'b' for boot

Hope this will help

Hi lagopus,

Thanks for your help. Luckily I did not need it.

In fact I installed antiX12.5.

Maybe this can help somebody else, so this is what I did.

I repartitioned hard drive to have:
sda1 - Windows recovery partition ( this is Acer Atom netpad)/primary
sda2 - Windows XP/primary
sda3 - home (ext2)/primary
sda4 - extended
sda5 - root (ext4)
sda6 - swap
When I restarted it worked.

Before that I tried several times to reinstall antix, but it would always end up in grub rescue mode.
To be true I don't know what fixed my installation if not new partitioning.
Let me see what will happen next.

Thanks again for your readiness to help.

I find this good for probs w. Grub:


========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://www.supergrubdisk.org/super-grub2-disk"
linktext was:"http://www.supergrubdisk.org/super-grub2-disk"
====================================


Boots from CD or USB - a good thing to have in the toolbox.

dmk