Grub problems after RH7.1->FC1 Upgrade

Scott Talbot talbotscott at cox.net
Tue Mar 30 05:41:55 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 18:40, Steve Thorpe wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I upgraded an RH7.1 box to FC1 and it went fairly smoothly.
> One thing I noticed after the upgrade though -- it was 
> still using lilo and grub hadn't been installed.  So I
> installed & attempted to configure grub, with only partial
> success - it manages to boot to the grub> prompt but then
> it waits for me to manually finish the boot procedure by 
> entering these commands by hand:
> 
> 	kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp root=/dev/hda5 
> 	initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp.img 
> 	boot
> 
> I really really want this to be automated at bootup! 
> There must be something really simple that I am missing - 
> right? Any advice would be very much appreciated.  Some 
> more info on how I installed follows FYI.
> 
> Thanks a lot,
> 
	My best guess is that /boot has not been set up properly.  Did you give
it a separate partition when you installed?
If you did, put it on its own partition, there should be a reference to
it in your /etc/fstab and that needed to be mounted when you ran the
grub-install command.

Scott






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