New partition -> Linux doesn't work anymore

[Znupi]

I have on my computer Windows XP & Ubuntu 6.06LTS Linux. It all worked fine until I created a new FAT32 partition, so I could share files between the two OSes.

Now, the problem is that after I created the new partition using Windows and Partition Magic 8.0, Linux won't boot anymore. I think it's trying to boot from the new partition... it says something like "file system is FAT32... blah blah...file not found" ... And my linux partition is, of course, Ext3, not FAT32. Now, the GRUB (the booting program that lets me choose between Windows and Linux) has a command-line available, but I don't have any idea what commands to use there. Does anyone know if there's any way to fix this? Please help...

[Celeste]

Hi Znupi

Have you tried the command ..... boot?

[Znupi]

Ok I fixed it, and the boot command didn't have anything to do with it :)
I had to edit the grub commands, once from the grub, and once from linux, in the /boot/grub/menu.lst file. Here are the changes I had to make:
root (hd0,5) -> root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-26-386 root=/dev/hda6 ro quiet splash ->
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-26-386 root=/dev/hda7 ro quiet splash
I hope this helps anyone else having this problem...

[Celeste]

I am sure it will help more than a few people.
Thank you for sharing your fix.:)