FW: grub

[Masoom Siddiqui]

Hi Barry,

splashimage wasn't an issue. Commenting out that line only brings a dark
screen with option to select a kernel.

grub-install /dev/sda worked !

I had installed grub to /dev/sda1, "grub-install /dev/sda1", thinking that
grub gets installed on the boot partition, my case being /dev/sda1.

Your thoughts?

Thank you again!
-masoom




> Quoting Masoom Siddiqui <siddiqui.masoom at gmail.com>:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I recently had Redhat 7.2 physical machine converted into VMware guest
> with
> > P2V tool vmware converter. When I boot the vm guest it drops me into
> <grub>
> > shell. In the shell if I type "configfile /grub/grub.conf" I get Kernel
> to
> > choose from and it boots normally from there.
> >
> > Why does boot process drop into grub shell?
> >
> > I have separate /boot parition...
> >
> > df -h
> > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/sda2             2.0G 1022M  914M  53% /
> > /dev/sda1             243M   13M  218M   6% /boot
> > none                  503M     0  503M   0% /dev/shm
> > /dev/sda7             2.0G   65M  1.8G   4% /tmp
> > /dev/sda3             7.9G  929M  6.6G  13% /usr
> > /dev/sda5             4.0G  1.1G  2.6G  30% /usr/local
> > /dev/sda8              20G  7.1G   11G  38% /var
> > Below is my /boot/grub/grub.conf...
> >
> > 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 (hd0,0)
> > #          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda2
> > #          initrd /initrd-version.img
> > #boot=/dev/sda
> > default=0
> > timeout=10
> > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> > title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-24.7)
> >         root (hd0,0)
> >         kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-24.7 ro root=/dev/sda2
> >         initrd /initrd-2.4.20-24.7.img
>
> You might try changing the splashimage line to remove the /boot from it ..
> since
> you have a /boot partition, you don't need it ... so it look more like the
> kernel and initrd lines.  I don't know if grub would actually hang on that
> or
> not .. you could also comment the splashimage line out.
>
> Also .. you might try reinstalling grub ...
>
> grub-install /dev/sda
>
> .. or if that doesn't work .. the longer approach is:
>
> grub --batch --no-floppy --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map
> --config-file=/boot/grub/grub.conf
>
> Once at the grub prompt, run:
>
> grub> root (hd0,0)
> grub> setup (hd0)
> grub> quit
>
> HTH,
> Barry
>
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