dear All. Sorry for my earlier mail which i was not able to explain correctly as i said b4 i had installed centos 5.2 to be as a squid proxy server and it was working fine for over a month or so but 3 days back the machine after a reboot jus refused to boot. after the post it tries to boot and the screen jus dispaly the below message GNU Grub version 0.97 [Minimal Bash like line editing is supported ..... guess grub cant find the OS file .. how could i possible go about this would really apprecite your help n suggestions regards Fabian once again sorry for my earlier email > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 7:31 AM, fabian dacunha <fabian at baladia.gov.kw> > wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> I am quite new to centos >> >> i had installed centos 5.2 to be as a squid proxy server and it was >> working fine for over a month or so >> >> but 3 days back the machine after a reboot jus refused to boot >> >> it jus was goin to the grub prompt >> > > Which one? > >> i wd really apprecite if someone cd help me .. >> >> cd i boot from centos boot cd n go to rescue mode and check grub >> > Yes, but you probably need to provide more info to get the right answers. > >> 2) if grub is OK how cd i reinstall centos without destroying data >> > > Let's take it one step at a time. > > mhr > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.