FC4 Install GRUB Load Error

[Chris Kirk]

On 8/12/05, Jeff Vian <jvian10 at charter.net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 11:20 -0700, Chris Kirk wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > I popped in the installation CD and ran the Linux Rescue. Through
> > Shell I found boot/grub in mnt/sysimage/boot/grub
> >
> > So I moved the boot folder into / and restarted and its still hanging!
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> 
> You *moved* boot from /mnt/sysimage to / when in rescue mode????
> 
> It is not likely you even have the kernel images or grub.conf files
> available now on the installation if I understood that correctly.
> 
> When booted to rescue mode / is initially in the ramdisk.  There is a
> note that comes up when it first boots that tells you about chrooting
> to /mnt/sysimage for access to the installed OS.
> 
> If you did not do that, then you moved the boot image to ramdisk and
> when you rebooted it is likely gone from the hard disk.

Hey,

No I did not actually move it I just copied the files. I even did a
full reinstall of FC4 and got nothing working.

The computer I am on right now does not have a floppy drive so I went
out and bought a floppy usb and I am creating the GRUB boot floppy
disk and I will let you know if that works.

Thanks for your help so far!

-Chris
> 
> > -Chris
> >
> > On 8/12/05, Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > > Chris Kirk wrote:
> > > > Hey Guys,
> > > >
> > > > I just recently, well yesterday actually installed FC4 on my old PC. I
> > > > downloaded the iso files and burned them to a disk and did all the
> > > > checks and they all passed.
> > > >
> > > > I installed it as a Desktop and just did the default settings because
> > > > I am pretty new at this sort of stuff. I have an HP system that has
> > > > the auto-partitioned system with a D: recovery drive. When installing
> > > > FC4 I selected to do an automatic thing and just remove my Windows
> > > > drive so I believe it should have wiped that all out.
> > > >
> > > > It said it did the install successfully and it did the post
> > > > installation stuff and everything and then told me to take out the CD
> > > > and hit reboot. I did so and then it loaded a blakc screen with a
> > > > white text saying
> > > >
> > > > GRUB Loading stage2...
> > > > and a blinking _ on the next line.
> > > >
> > > > I turned off the PC and turned it back on only to have the same problem.
> > > >
> > > > If anyone has any suggestions at all please let me know as I am
> > > > totally lost to this!
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance!
> > > >
> > >
> > > It looks like you have an incomplete GRUB install. You should
> > > have a directory on /boot/grub/ which contains stage2 and a
> > > grub.conf file.
> > >
> > > Reboot from any recovery CD and see whether you can find those files.
> > > If you can, then perhaps you are having a disc I/O problem. If you
> > > cannot, then you have an installation problem. Search around and
> > > see whether you have a directory somewhere on disc with those
> > > files. If you can find them, put a copy of everything in that
> > > directory into /boot/grub and try again.
> > >
> > > HTH
> > >
> > > Mike
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