On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 08:07, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
Hi,
Oh wow... that would imply that I would have to manually scrub the hda drive and reinstall? I did previously had RH9 on it and when I installed the FCT2, I did a new install on it... you would think that the FC should have partitioned, reformatted, and installed a new MBR ???
Is there a way to force a reinstall of the MBR using grub in linux rescue to be sure so that I can save 2+ hours of reinstall?
Thanks, Dan
-----Original Message----- From: Chris Kloiber [mailto:ckloiber@ckloiber.com] Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 5:00 PM To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases Subject: RE: Installation of FC T2: GRUB interactive on 1st installandGRUBhang on 2nd install
On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 07:57, Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
Hi all,
I did a little more researching but nothing gave me any clues to what is going on and why GRUB hangs... I inserted CD1 and ran linux rescue and found:
My drives and partitions are: /dev/hda1 /boot (active) /dev/hdb3 /
/etc/grub.conf # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # ... blah, blah... #boot=/dev/hda1 default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Fedora Core (2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb initrd /initrd-2.6.3-2.1.253.2.1.img
The above configuration file is correct, so... why is GRUB hanging when starting up?
All I get on a boot up is all the usual pc bootup text, then after that a cleared screen with a black background and 4 characters in white:
GRUB[]
where [] is the block-cursor.
Best regards, Dan
#boot=/dev/hda1
I would guess that you have an older grub installed in /dev/hda that does not know where your current system is installed. So it's never getting as far as the grub in /dev/hda1.
-- Chris Kloiber
A simple 'fdisk /mbr' from a Windows 98 emergency boot floppy should suffice if you want to keep grub on /dev/hda1. Otherwise adjust grub.conf to use /dev/hda, and run 'grub-install /dev/hda' from rescue mode.