Problems Installing Fedora x86_64

[Daniel J Celta]

Craig,
Keep in mind I am trying.

After I do "chroot /mnt/sysimage"
grub-install /dev/sda fails

I do find a boot/grub folder but no file under the name grub.conf.

The files I find are the same as the ones shown below.

Thanks for your patience

On Jun 23, 2009, at 12:46 AM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>  
wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 00:25 -0500, Daniel J Celta wrote:
>> Ok I fou d the folder under
>>
>> /mnt/sysimage/boot/grub
>>
>> The files under this folder are:
>>
>> Device.map
>> E2fs_stage1_5
>> fat_stage1_5
>> ffs_stage1_5
>> iso9660_stage1_5
>> jfs_stage1_5
>> minix_stage1_5
>> reiserfs_stage1_5
>> stage1
>> stage2
>> ufs2_stage1_5
>> vstafs_stage1_5
>> xfs_stage1_5
>>
>> Let me know what you think
>> Thanks
>>
>> On Jun 22, 2009, at 10:41 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 2009-06-22 at 22:34 -0500, Daniel J Celta wrote:
>>>> Craig,
>>>> Like you said the command "grub-install -v /dev/sda" works.
>>>> It returs the following:
>>>>
>>>> "grub-install (GNU GRUB 0.97)"
>>>>
>>>> After exit the chroot and the shell reboot.
>>>> Andafter taking out the DVD,  the computer hangs and do not do
>>>> anyting......????
>>> ----
>>> you can try 'grub-install -v /dev/sdb' and then for sdc and sdd -  
>>> the
>>> thinking is that the device order is different when you boot from  
>>> DVD
>>> and when you don't.
>>>
>>> If that fails, you might want to post the contents
>>> of /boot/grub/grub.conf
> ----
> It would be helpful if you followed the instructions that I have given
> you twice already, to chroot to the installed files.
>
> You must 'linux rescue' boot which you are doing.
>
> After it locates the partitions, you must type the command...
>
> chroot /mnt/sysimage
>
> at that point, you should have a /boot with a /boot/grub directory  
> and a
> file called /boot/grub/grub.conf
>
> if you haven't done the chroot command, and you don't have a /boot
> directory with a /boot/grub directory inside, any grub-install command
> will fail.
>
> Craig
>
>
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