----- Original Message -----
From: Aaron Konstam <akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net>
Date: Saturday, December 30, 2006 5:46 pm
Subject: Re: Can't boot after upgrade to FC6
To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list(a)redhat.com>
On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 10:53 -0500, zephod(a)cfl.rr.com wrote:
> ---- Original Message -----
> From: Timothy Murphy <tim(a)birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie>
> > I would try running grub interactively;
> > type "c" when the grub prompt appears,
> > and then "root = (hd0,0)" or "root = (hd1,0)",
> > and see what grub reports.
>
> That's just it - the grub prompt never appears nor does anything
else
> but a blank screen before a reboot. The way I got into grub
> interactivly was to enter rescue mode by using the installation
DVD
> and then type grub at the shell prompt.
>
> # grub
> grub> root (hd0,0)
> Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
>
> Is it possible that grub got installed in the wrong place? How
can I
> find out where grub is installed?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve
>
In means to me that your hd0 disk partition 1 is either not there
or not
formatted.
Try fdisk /de/hda and see what it tells you.
# fdisk -l /dev/hdi
Disk /dev/hdi: 160.0GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cyclindes of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdi1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hdi2 14 19457 156183930 8e Linux LVM
Looks like partition 1 is there and formatted to me. Could it be too
small?
Steve