Statish: install fail: configuring Kernel parameters -

Terry R. Grier terry at tigerstaffing.net
Wed Nov 24 20:02:12 UTC 2004


I  am logged in as 'root'

How to I get the latest updates from this mode?



Terry R. Grier wrote:

> Thank you for your patience.
> I was looking at the wrong Menu option under theGRUB menu.
> I understand.
> I deleted
> 'rhgb' and 'quiet'
> and added '3'
>
> It booted. and now I see localhost login.:
>
> I have not made a log in yet.  I am going to look in the redhat manual 
> to find out how.
>
> Also:  in your first mesg to me you stated "
>
> Now get the latest updates - and reconfigure your X (with
> system-config-display) "
>
> Are there instructions on how to get the updates via the consule only 
> option?
>
>
> Thank you again. and I am getting closer and learning for next time.
>
> Respectfully,
> Terry
>
>
>
>
> Satish Balay wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 24 Nov 2004, Terry R. Grier wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>>>> In my GRUB Menu I have
>>>>>
>>>>> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 3
>>>>> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>>>>> chainloader +1
>>>>>       
>>>>
>>
>>  
>>
>>>> Where is the initial ramdisk image instruction? Where is the title
>>>> declaration? You only have these 3 lines in your gurb.conf?
>>>>     
>>>
>>
>>  
>>
>>> I am now confused.
>>> How or what do I put in the GRUB menu so that I can boot this machine?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> For eg: I have:
>> title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.681_FC3)
>>        root (hd0,1)
>>        kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.681_FC3 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb 
>> quiet acpi=off
>>        initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.681_FC3.img
>>
>> Notice the 'initrd' line - which you don't appear to have.
>> And the sugestion was to post the 'complete' contents of grub.conf (to
>> see if this indeed was the error)
>>
>> Satish
>>
>>  
>>
>




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