Upgrade from RH8 to FC1 hangs with GRUB

[John Rumball]

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 BIOS on this Dell OptiPlex GX1 to rule out any outdated BIOS issues 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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