[Techtalk] grub rescue partition issue

[SVAKSHA]

Hi,

On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 5:01 PM, A. Mani <a.mani.cms at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> if you can boot from a live cd, then you should be able to mount them.
>
[snip]

> If your system is reasonably fine then you should be able to boot from
> grub rescue mode.
>

On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Chaiken, Alison
<alison at exerciseforthereader.org> wrote:
> If I were you, I'd copy my data off (assuming you don't have a backup),
> repartition the disc, then copy the data back.    Attached is a screen

Thank you Alison and Mani. Sorry about the slow reply.
The status update is that while I was able to boot from the live disk,
the data was wiped too, so I was unable to retrieve anything - it was
a test machine so there was some data loss but I had older backups.
Thanks for the helpful tips though and this is a good reminder that I
should get around to upgrading my old backup scripts to sync between
machines :)
best, SVAKSHA ॥  http://about.me/svaksha  ॥