Upgrade from RH8 to FC1 hangs with GRUB
John Rumball
fedora at jerumball.com
Wed Jan 21 15:44:28 UTC 2004
Further to my last post, I was able to mount my partitions from the
linux rescue command shell. Although I struggled abit, I was able to
run the "grub-install /dev/hda" command successfully. When I rebooted
the machine, this time I get past the GRUB message, but it stops at
the "grub>" prompt. Why is it stopping here? My grub.conf looked good
to me. Where do I go from here?
Thanks again.
John Rumball
> Thanks for your responses guys.
>
> I tried booting off the FC1 CD #1 and went into rescue mode but
> although it recognized the three partitions on my drive (hda1, hda2,
> hda3) it could not mount any of them, saying something like: 'Unable
to
> mount /dev/hda1: Invalid argument' . The same thing happened on all
> the other partitions, and then the rescue process terminated saying
> that it could not find any Linux installations at all.
>
> I should mention that before trying this rescue mode I did upgrade
the
> BIOS on this Dell OptiPlex GX1 to rule out any outdated BIOS issues
> with large disks.
>
> If you have any other ideas, I'd really like to hear them.
>
> Thanks, once again.
>
> John Rumball
>
> > On Wednesday 21 January 2004 11:47, Wolfgang wrote:
> >
> > > Boot your first Fedora CD and use it to boot to your hard drive
> > > (Recovery mode if I remember). Once there, cd to your /boot/grub
> > > directory. Then issue a 'grub-install /dev/hd? (hd? the drive you
> wish
> > > to boot from). Then reboot your system and it should work again.
> >
> > Or possibly "grub-install --recheck /dev/hda"
> >
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