Upgrade from RH8 to FC1 hangs with GRUB

[John Rumball]

Paolo,

Here are the items you requested:

New Disk
========
Disk /dev/had: 30.7GB, 30750031872 bytes 
  /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3738 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1        62   497983+   83  Linux
/dev/hda2            63      3428  27037395   83  Linux
/dev/hda3          3429      3738   2490075   82  Linux swap


Old Disk
========
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 784 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1        13    104391   83  Linux
/dev/hda2            14       719   5670945   83  Linux
/dev/hda3           720       784    522112+  82  Linux swap
[root at SRINS015 root]#


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/hda2
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-28.8)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-28.8 ro root=LABEL=/
        initrd /initrd-2.4.20-28.8.img
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-20.8)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.8 ro root=LABEL=/
        initrd /initrd-2.4.20-20.8.img
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-18.8)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-18.8 ro root=LABEL=/
        initrd /initrd-2.4.20-18.8.img
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-13.8)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-13.8 ro root=LABEL=/
        initrd /initrd-2.4.20-13.8.img
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-27.8.0)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-27.8.0 ro root=LABEL=/
        initrd /initrd-2.4.18-27.8.0.img
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-26.8.0)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-26.8.0 ro root=LABEL=/
        initrd /initrd-2.4.18-26.8.0.img
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-24.8.0)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-24.8.0 ro root=LABEL=/
        initrd /initrd-2.4.18-24.8.0.img
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-19.8.0)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-19.8.0 ro root=LABEL=/
        initrd /initrd-2.4.18-19.8.0.img
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-14)
        root (hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/
        initrd /initrd-2.4.18-14.img

device.map
==========
[root at SRINS015 grub]# cat device.map
# this device map was generated by anaconda
(fd0)     /dev/fd0
(hd0)     /dev/hda


Thank you.

John Rumball

> 
> John Rumball said:
> > 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?
> 
> Can you please post your grub.conf, device.map and the output of 
fdisk -l ?
> 
>                        Paolo
> 
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