restore computer and reinstall grub

Antonio Olivares olivares14031 at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 15 04:44:50 UTC 2005



--- Antonio Olivares <olivares14031 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dear Kind Folks,
>    I was experimenting with an external USB hard
> drive
> and installed fedora 4 on it.  I followed the advice
> given on some emails from this list.  I must have
> screwed up somewhere.  Upon running installation I
> selected linux expert nohd and ran diskdrake

diskdrake should be disk druid.  Not to be mistaken
for Mandrake/Mandriva's partition utility.  Sorry for
the mistake/typo, I did not make a volume group and
disabled SELinux.  

> with
> /boot partition=100MB, linux-swap partition=768MB
> 2xRAM, and / partition rest of space.  I selected
> all
> packages and made a complete install.  The internel
> disk which original fedora was installed had several
> partitions and /boot/grub/grub.conf had root(hd0,2)
> and when I tried to boot it leaving USB connected it
> gave (hd1,0).
> 
> I disconnected the USB drive and tried again.
> 
> 
> Upon reboot, I encounter the following message
> 
> root(hd1,0)
> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> kernel vmlinux-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4 ro root=LABEL=/
> rhgb
> quiet
>    [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x18e473]
> initrd /initrd-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4.img
>    [Linux-initrd @ 0x18de1f000c, 0x1a0e53 bytes]
> 
> Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel.
> Red Hat Nash version 4.2.15 starting
>   Reading all physical volumes this may take a while
>   Found volume group "VolGroup00" using metadata
> type
> lvm2
>   2 logical volume(s) in Volume Group
> "VolumeGroup00"
> now active
> 
> mkrootdev:  label / not found
> mount:  error 2 mounting ext3
> ERROR opening /dev/console!!!!:2
> error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 0
> error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 1
> error dup2'ing fd of 0 to 2
> switchroot:  mount failed: 22
> kernel panic - not syncing:  Attempted to kill init!
> 
> I popped in install cd and ran linux rescue to
> restore
> grub file using 
> # chroot /mnt/sysimage 
> but could not remember how to restore grub to boot
> original fedora installed on hard drive.
> 
> Advice, suggestions, and comments are greatly
> appreciated.
> 
> Also please give advice to make USB hard drive boot
> on
> its own to run on different computers taking the
> system wherever I go.  I messed up somewhere and
> would
> like to rectify.  
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Antonio
> 
> 
> 
> 
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