On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 15:56 -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 18:46 -0400, Ted Gervais wrote:
> I am having trouble booting up core6. I installed it earlier today and
> after trying to find a way to get Grub to work I formatted the drive and
> started over.
>
> Now I am back at the same prompt with no core6 running. Grub does not
> appear and the result is - Windows comes up rather than linux.
>
> I am totally lost now. There is no sign at all that there is even Linux
> installed on this computer, and yet I just took off centos which was
> working fine and it used grub as its windows manager.
>
> I have two harddrives (hda and hdb).
> HDA is for Windows and HDB for Linux.
>
> That is how it was with centos and previous versions of linux such as
> core5. It always worked fine.
> Now I get nothing when I reboot the machine other than windows..
>
> What am I overlooking? And is there a way that I can bring up this
> installed version of Fedora (core6) using the rescue disk? If this is
> possible what would be the boot line to get things running?
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try booting the FC-6 Installation Disc 1 or the rescue CD and typing at
boot prompt...
linux rescue
Did that..
after it boots, it provides a message and offers to 'mount' any FC-6
installations it finds (good idea)
Not really, but it will if you know what to type in... I don't..
You can confirm the installation by typing at command line...
fdisk -l /dev/hdb
Right on. Did that, been there.
it should list at least 2 partitions on hdb...
approximately 100 mb /boot partition
balance of partition in one big LVM partition
If you can locate those, you could try...
chroot /mnt/sysimage
grub-install -v /dev/hda
I did the grub-
install /dev/hda, .../dev/hdb1, .../dev/hda1, .../dev/hdb...
...and while it looked like it was working, it didn't. A reboot proved
that for sure.
There is just something different about this core6. I don't know what
it is other than it can't install grub. Since I wrote this query to the
list I took off core6 and install CENTOS. It went on beautifully
together with GRUB. No problem at all.
So, what in the world is wrong with CORE6??
which should install the grub boot loader onto the boot blocks of the
Windows drive.
then 'exit' and 'exit' should cause it to reboot and bring up grub
bootloader
Craig