[NTLUG:Discuss] XP and FC3 rescued

[Leroy Tennison]

John K. Taber wrote:
> Thanks to the advice from NTLUG I rescued XP and reinstalled grub
> successfully. 
>
> I used the FC3 rescue CD instead of the 1st install CD.
>
> Also, I had to punt on how to quit rescue once grub was restored. Some
> of us are not that handy with the Linux command line mode. I noticed
> that most of the grub reinstall procedures from Google search do not
> tell the newbie how to quit. 
>
> "shutdown" followed by "exit" seemed to work. I think it is a good idea
> to tell people:
>
> 1. 	How to start
> 2-n 	Steps to perform
> n+1 	How to quit
>
> The last may be so obvious it is easy to overlook.
>
> John K. Taber
>
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(At least for Fedora) starting with CD 1 isn't a bad idea, just press F5 
for rescue instructions or type 'linux rescue' at the prompt.

"Steps to perform" is virtually impossible because it depends on what is 
wrong.  RedHat has put out a good set of orientation manuals 
(http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/).  A couple worth noting 
are the Reference Guide which has two chapters just on the boot process 
and the System Administration Guide which has an entire chapter on basic 
system recovery.  When I first started learning Linux I bought Red Hat 
(they sold a non-business retail version then) and, seeing the 
documentation, made it a project to read all of it.  It was well worth 
the effort invested.  SuSE has a rather extensive manual as well but I 
haven't read it and thus can't comment.  The RedHat manuals are PDFs 
which I would encourage you to download if you have a need for that kind 
of documentation.

To quit either 'shutdown -r now' (for reboot) or 'shutdown -h now' (true 
shutdown) are all you need.  Some distributions have 'reboot' and 'halt' 
but i wouldn't count on them being there in every case.