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Re: freezing machine updated/upgraded to rawhide/current sulfur

Antonio Olivares wrote:

--- Richard Hally <rhally mindspring com> wrote:


Antonio Olivares wrote:

Dear all,

I have updated/upgraded the machine that was

freezing all the time to Rawhide using Fedora
Preview Iso + Updates. 
There is only one gotcha. Grub is not working

correctly?

When starting up machine. IT does nothing it stays
at 
GRUB

and stays there. I can successfully boot it using

livecd's to boot the partition.
I only see the line 
GRUB

and that is all there is no grub prompt
grub>

I used RipLinux-5.3 and booted from the fourth
partition where Fedora resides.  I was confused since
the initial kernel(Fedora 8 Pre-Release) worked, and
the entries 
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
vs
root=UUID=d82c76e1-bbe7-4a0d-94e9-711b3aea50db

That changed and I do not comprehend what happened.  I
can still boot, but I wondered what happened. 
I'll try your advise on Monday when I get back to the
machine and hope that that will cure it.

Thanks for your advice,
Antonio 
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro

root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00

#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.25-14.fc9.i686)
    root (hd0,1)
    kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 ro

 root=UUID=d82c76e1-bbe7-4a0d-94e9-711b3aea50db rhgb
quiet

    initrd /initrd-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.img




that grub-install /dev/sda1 may not have worked.
since that is your win xp partition. 

here is what I did:
boot from a CD that has rescue mode
do the chroot to /mnt/sysimage
run grub interactively
at the grub> prompt
grub> root (hd0,1)
grub> setup /dev/sda
grub>quit


that should put what grub needs in the MBR.

reboot

HTH
Richard
P.S. there are other emails about this in the
archives.
[students localhost ~]$ cat /etc/fedora-release Fedora release 9 (Sulphur) 
[students localhost ~]$ uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 #1

SMP Thu May 1 06:28:41 EDT 2008 i686 athlon i386
GNU/Linux

[students localhost ~]$

I have already run grub-install /dev/sda1 from
Fedora 9 Preview DVD to make sure everything is ok. Is there anything that looks incorrect in grub.conf below. 
BTW: Machine does not freeze anymore.  Maybe it
did not like Fedora 8. 
Thanks in Advanced,

Antonio

Here's smolt profile if useful/needed



http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_d987b6b2-71ec-4cfd-82c8-e822f9a5ec5a

(public)


Here's grub.conf and fdisk -l

[root localhost ~]# yum update -y
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
updates
| 2.4 kB 00:00
fedora
| 2.4 kB 00:00
adobe-linux-i386
| 951 B 00:00 
Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for Update
[root localhost ~]# cat /boot/grub/grub.conf # grub.conf generated by anaconda 
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after

making changes to this file

# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means

that

#          all kernel and initrd paths are

relative to /boot/, eg.

#          root (hd0,1)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro

root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00

#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.25-14.fc9.i686)
    root (hd0,1)
    kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 ro

root=UUID=d82c76e1-bbe7-4a0d-94e9-711b3aea50db rhgb
quiet

    initrd /initrd-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.img
title Fedora (2.6.25-0.234.rc9.git1.fc9.i686)
    root (hd0,1)
    kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25-0.234.rc9.git1.fc9.i686

ro root=UUID=d82c76e1-bbe7-4a0d-94e9-711b3aea50db
rhgb quiet

    initrd

/initrd-2.6.25-0.234.rc9.git1.fc9.i686.img

title Microsoft Windows XP Pro
    rootnoverify (hd0,0)
    chainloader +1
[root localhost ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xaf7caf7c
Device Boot Start End Blocks 
 Id  System

/dev/sda1   *           1       26108   209712478+

  7  HPFS/NTFS

/dev/sda2           31841       31865      200812+

 83  Linux
/dev/sda3 31866 38913 56613060 
 8e  Linux LVM
/dev/sda4 26109 31840 46042290 
  5  Extended
/dev/sda5 26109 26239 1052226 
 82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 26240 31840 44990001 
 83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/dm-0: 56.8 GB, 56841207808 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 6910 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition

table

Disk /dev/dm-1: 1073 MB, 1073741824 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 130 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x30307800

Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition

table
[root localhost ~]# 



Perhaps my explanation was not that clear.

I think you can do this from booting the liveCD.
When you are up and running the live CD go to a terminal and su - to root
then at the bash prompt type "grub" this will bring up grub in interactive mode(the grub> prompt.) 
then you can type the grub commands to reinstall grub to the MBR.
according to your grub.conf your boot partition is on (hd0,1).
that is why you give it the command "root (hd0,1)"
so that it knows that the kernel and initrd are there.
Then you give it the setup command to install the first part of grub into the MBR.
"setup /dev/sda"
by giving it sda without the 1 or 2 or whatever it will install what it needs to the MBR and not to the first block of any partition. 

I hope this is fixed for the GA release.

HTH
Richard
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