zephod(a)cfl.rr.com wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au>
Date: Saturday, December 30, 2006 12:14 pm
Subject: Re: Can't boot after upgrade to FC6
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
> On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 16:29 -0500, zephod(a)cfl.rr.com wrote:
>> The upgrade from FC5 to FC6 appeared to go OK at first and I was
> able
>> to log in and do a package update which had no problems. However
> after
>> I installed xen I can no longer boot; the system just reboots.
> I wonder if you replaced a non-Xen kernel with a Xen one, rather than
> installing it as an additional kernel?
>
I tried with several different kernels but get the same result.
>> After some investigation I found that when I boot from the DVD
> in
>> rescue mode and run grub from the command line I get this:
>>
>> # grub
>> grub> root (hd0,0)
>> Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
>>
>> The file /boot/device.map contains:
>> (hd0) /dev/hdi
>> (hd1) /dev/sda
>>
>> hd1 is my Windows disk.
> Perhaps your map file doesn't really show what's considered hd0
> and hd1.
> Try issuing root (hd1,0), and see what difference it makes. You can
> just type in (hd and hit the tab key, you'll get auto-complete
options
> from what's available.
>
> If something considers the order of the drives to be different,
> they'llcount the other way around.
# grub
grub> root (<TAB>
grub> root (hd0,
Entering 0 gives me the "Filesystem type unknown..." error, entering
any other number gives me a "disk not found" error. I tried root
(hd1,0) but this doesn't work either.
If I try the auto completion with a kernel command, I get this:
# grub
grub> kernel /vmlin<TAB>
Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition.
I am guessing this is because the root command fails.
Steve,
what hardware do you have (e.g. motherboard, chipset, etc.)? To me it
seems pretty strange, that you harddrive (hd0) is /dev/hdi as hd0 should
be /dev/hda if I'm not wrong.
Did you install/boot with the all-generic-ide option? I'm just wild
guessing here.
Alex