Thanks for your reply. My filesystems are ext3.
I did the 'find' and then the 'configfile'. Now, I get
"Error 17: Cannot mount select partition".
I wonder if this has something to do with my 300GB
drive which I put in as the master drive. Earlier I
had a 80GB drive.
The contents of the grub.conf are as follows:
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358smp)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358smp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358smp.img
title Fedora Core-up (2.6.5-1.358)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
The filesystems are as follows:
/dev/hdb2 /
/dev/hdb1 /boot
none /dev/shm
/dev/hda2 /usr1
/dev/hdb3 /usr2
Thank you,
Krish
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--- Scott Talbot <talbotscott(a)cox.net> wrote:
V Krish wrote:
>I had Fedora Core 2 on my machine. When one of the
>internal disk drives failed, I put in a new 300GB
>drive as the master drive. I also re-installed
Fedora
>Core 2 from scratch on this drive. The boot process
>now stops at the grub prompt. If I try 'boot', the
>message is "kernel not loaded" or something
similar.
>What may cause this?
>
>Thank you
>Krish
>
>
The good news is that grub is installed fine,
however for some
reason it cannot find /grub/grub.conf. One
possibility is that your
/boot is a Reiserfs partition (for some reason Grub
doesn't like that
too well).
If you have /boot in a ext2 or ext3 (ext2 is
better imo, I don't
recall if it is discouraged). Anyway try this.
GRUB>find /grub/grub.conf
This will likely return the name of the
partition that has grub.conf
on it. If it should fail to find grub, You'll need
to boot into CD 1.
At the prompt enter linux rescue. Follow directions
till you get to the
part where it tells you to enter chroot
/mnt/sysimage, then to
grub-install /dev/hda (assuming that your Bios is
set to boot the
primary master hard drive). after that type exit
<enter> and reboot your
computer to see if it works.
Another possibility that I've seen is that you might
have 2 /boot
directories (this confuses linux!) or if you left
the /boot entry from
your FC3 and are now using the same partition as
root (actually I never
saw this, and I'm not sure this could cause a
problem. I currently have
/boot for FC4 and a boot within a Rawhide distro
with no problems. You
could try findfs LABEL=/boot to see if you have a
partition.
if the find command returned for example (hd0,0) you
could type:
GRUB>configfile(hd0,0)/grub/grub.conf
which should load the config file and allow you to
boot Fedora
HTH
Scott
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