Kstartupconfig error after screwing up partition

linuxwise · October 5, 2007

I don't know how this could have happened but I had was using an xp install cd just to see if I could find some files on a vista partiton, and when I went to go back to grub it was gone, but to make matters worse I tried to fix the problem, somehow screwed up the boot partition and now I get the GUI but get Kstartupconfig error and can only login root through command line. (I know I shouldn't use root but, I don't have anything else. I have searched high and low for a solution but can't come up with one, can someone help me figure this out?

Using Mandriva 2007 Spring

Thanks

Edited October 5, 2007 by linuxwise

Greg2 · October 5, 2007

I don't understand what you were trying to do, but... It sounds like you changed your /home ownership? So as root try

chown -R username:users /home/username

replacing username with the name you'er using. Then log out, and try to log in with that name.

linuxwise · October 5, 2007

I don't understand what you were trying to do, but... It sounds like you changed your /home ownership? So as root try
chown -R username:users /home/username
replacing username with the name you'er using. Then log out, and try to log in with that name.

Yes it does seem that way, let me explain, I don't remember where I found the info, but somewhere it said to reassign the partition or something like tha to solve the missing GRUB problem, well I got the GRUB back but lost my old user, like you said, anyhow I have already tried your suggestion yesterday and this is the output., My user name is wealthwise, and as far as TestDisk is concerned my directory is intact. I will post it here as soon as I can.

Thanks for the help

[root@localhost ~]# chown -R wealthwise:users /home/wealthwise

chown: cannot access `/home/wealthwise': No such file or directory would this command work better if it were done in root on LiveCD?

and this is what I get when I try to change to wealthwise from root

[root@localhost ~]# su wealthwise

bash-3.1$

Edited October 5, 2007 by linuxwise

Greg2 · October 5, 2007

chown: cannot access `/home/wealthwise': No such file or directory

Please post the output of

cd /home && ls

linuxwise · October 5, 2007

Please post the output of
cd /home && ls

No output

[root@localhost ~]# cd /home && ls

[root@localhost home]#

Greg2 · October 5, 2007

It appears that you've lost your /home/wealthwise directory. I don't suppose you made a backup of it, before this happened?

scarecrow · October 5, 2007

Either you have deleted /home/wealthwise, or you have "fixed" your problem by umounting your home partition and creating new home entries...

Can you find anywhere a /home/wealthwise directory?

Are ALL of your harddisk partitions mounted?

linuxwise · October 6, 2007

It appears that you've lost your /home/wealthwise directory. I don't suppose you made a backup of it, before this happened?

I have no idea, but look at my reply below.

linuxwise · October 6, 2007

Either you have deleted /home/wealthwise, or you have "fixed" your problem by umounting your home partition and creating new home entries...
Can you find anywhere a /home/wealthwise directory?

Are ALL of your harddisk partitions mounted?

Well I don't see any of my harddisk partitions mounted and I'm having trouble with the MCC and partitions, the only thing I can say is that in TestDisk I see the wealthwise directory, here's the console of that. the contents appear to be in tact.

thanks

drwxr-xr-x 0 0 4096 4-Oct-2007 21:10 ..

drwxr-xr-x 0 0 16384 15-Sep-2007 21:11 lost+found

lrwxrwxrwx 0 0 16 15-Sep-2007 21:25 guest

drwxr-xr-x 500 500 4096 4-Oct-2007 15:38 wealthwise

drwxr-xr-x 0 0 4096 4-Oct-2007 21:10 install

I don't know if this helps but here is the directory of my Fat partitioned windows. I have been trying to recover that for days, but that's a different story.

dr-xr-xr-x 0 0 0 18-Apr-2007 19:58 ..

-r--r--r-- 0 0 153 18-Apr-2007 19:59 FmtFAT32.INI

-r--r--r-- 0 0 490 18-Apr-2007 19:59 ACERBP.P2

-r--r--r-- 0 0 32 6-Aug-2007 12:18 aimdrs.dat

dr-xr-xr-x 0 0 0 18-Apr-2007 19:58 AUTORUN

-r--r--r-- 0 0 356 18-Apr-2007 19:59 BACKUP.NAP

dr-xr-xr-x 0 0 0 18-Apr-2007 20:02 BITLOCKER

-r--r--r-- 0 0 37376 18-Apr-2007 19:59 BOOT.DAT

dr-xr-xr-x 0 0 0 18-Apr-2007 19:58 D2D

-r--r--r-- 0 0 888832 5-Aug-2007 20:18 D2D32.EXE

-r--r--r-- 0 0 78 23-Apr-2007 12:02 DrAssign2C.ini

dr-xr-xr-x 0 0 0 18-Apr-2007 20:02 FACTORY

-r--r--r-- 0 0 6656 18-Apr-2007 19:59 FATBOOT.BIN

-r--r--r-- 0 0 69632 18-Apr-2007 19:59 int15.sys

-r--r--r-- 0 0 512 18-Apr-2007 19:59 MBR.BIN

scarecrow · October 6, 2007

This isn't your windows partition.

This is the "eRecovery" hidden partition of your Acer notebook.

Greg2 · October 6, 2007

the only thing I can say is that in TestDisk I see the wealthwise directory

I've never used TestDisk, so maybe it sees a 'corrupted' directory, or you've created a new /home, I'm not sure? Please post the output of

fdisk -l

and

cat /etc/fstab

linuxwise · October 6, 2007

I've never used TestDisk, so maybe it sees a 'corrupted' directory, or you've created a new /home, I'm not sure? Please post the output of
fdisk -l
and
cat /etc/fstab

Well I'm a newbie to TestDisk , all I know is that I have been able to use it to recover some of my data on my vista partition.

Ok here they are, please tell me something good.

Thanks

[root@localhost guest]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

  Device Boot	  Start		 End	  Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1			   1		1019	 8185086   12  Compaq diagnostics
/dev/sda2			1020		5394	35142187+   6  FAT16
/dev/sda3   *		5395		7452	16530885	7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4			7453		9729	18290002+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5			7453		7958	 4064413+  83  Linux
/dev/sda6			7959		8060	  819283+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7			8061		8380	 2570368+  83  Linux
/dev/sda8			8381		8554	 1397623+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda9			8555		9092	 4321453+  83  Linux
/dev/sda10		   9093		9436	 2763148+  83  Linux
/dev/sda11		   9437		9505	  554211   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda12		   9506		9729	 1799248+  83  Linux

That's pretty much what it looks like in TestDisk

[root@localhost guest]# cat /etc/fstab
none / unionfs rw 0 0
/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom auto umask=0022,users,iocharset=utf8,sync,noauto,ro,exec 0 0

Edited October 6, 2007 by linuxwise

Greg2 · October 6, 2007

please tell me something good.

Vista works, doesn't it? :)

The rest looks bad. I've never used Vista, but if you want to save it... I would suggest that you remove/delete partitions sda4 to sda12, then reinstall Mandriva. Sorry! :sad:

linuxwise · October 6, 2007

Vista works, doesn't it? :)

The rest looks bad. I've never used Vista, but if you want to save it... I would suggest that you remove/delete partitions sda4 to sda12, then reinstall Mandriva. Sorry! :sad:

Well actually no Vista no longer is working this is a long story, but it got screwed up when I tried to mount my Vistal volume in Mandriva, I think I chose a copy or move files option mounted to usr/local, At no time did I say yes to deleting anything,or approved anything that would result in data lost, so it should still be in tact. forgot to unmount, I restarted and went to my Grub menu, now there is no startup files for windows, it says " root (hd01) Filesystem type 0x6

makeactive chainloader +1 not bootable disk then in Safemode it says same except type 0x5 and says "NTLDR" is missing I went back to mount point and it says that the partition is Fat 16, I thought it was NTFS. anyhow I tried to mount to /mnt/windows that didn't work and when I try to mount to boot or usr it says "You need a true file system (ext2/ext3, reiserfs, xfs or jfs) for this mount point, so when I click on ext2 I get "Use type instead" so I toggle expert and chose type and it says it's going to delete data, you can see my whole post on mandrivaclub forums http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=...16b7b47fc1b0a99

What a mess Ive gotten into! I really want to see if I can restore something to be able to backup data on the partitions, after that I don't care if I have to reinstall, heck, I'm ready to install XP instead of vista and dualboot with Mandriva.

Thanks

Greg2 · October 6, 2007

you can see my whole post on mandrivaclub forums http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=...16b7b47fc1b0a99

What a mess Ive gotten into! I really want to see if I can restore something to be able to backup data on the partitions, after that I don't care if I have to reinstall, heck, I'm ready to install XP instead of vista and dualboot with Mandriva.

You should have told us that in the beginning... we're friends with them. :)

Now, where is the data you want to save? Is it in the Vista file system, or the Linux?

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