Grub problems after RH7.1->FC1 Upgrade

[Steve Thorpe]

Hi Scott,

Thanks a lot for your message back.  /boot does have its
own partition which is in /etc/fstab and was mounted
at the time of the grub-install.  I am going to
try some more noodling and googling to see if
I can figure this out.

[root at duey1 ~]# grep boot /etc/fstab
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2

[root at duey1 ~]# df /boot
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1                38859     12863     23990  35% /boot

[root at duey1 ~]# ls /boot/grub
device.map     fat_stage1_5  grub.conf     menu.lst        reiserfs_stage1_5  stage1  vstafs_stage1_5
e2fs_stage1_5  ffs_stage1_5  jfs_stage1_5  minix_stage1_5  splash.xpm.gz      stage2  xfs_stage1_5

Steve

> From talbotscott at cox.net Tue Mar 30 00:41:58 2004
> Subject: Re: Grub problems after RH7.1->FC1 Upgrade
> From: Scott Talbot 
> 
> On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 18:40, Steve Thorpe wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > 
> > I upgraded an RH7.1 box to FC1 and it went fairly smoothly.
> > One thing I noticed after the upgrade though -- it was 
> > still using lilo and grub hadn't been installed.  So I
> > installed & attempted to configure grub, with only partial
> > success - it manages to boot to the grub> prompt but then
> > it waits for me to manually finish the boot procedure by 
> > entering these commands by hand:
> > 
> > 	kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp root=/dev/hda5 
> > 	initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptlsmp.img 
> > 	boot
> > 
> > I really really want this to be automated at bootup! 
> > There must be something really simple that I am missing - 
> > right? Any advice would be very much appreciated.  Some 
> > more info on how I installed follows FYI.
> > 
> > Thanks a lot,
> > 
> 	My best guess is that /boot has not been set up properly.  Did you give
> it a separate partition when you installed?
> If you did, put it on its own partition, there should be a reference to
> it in your /etc/fstab and that needed to be mounted when you ran the
> grub-install command.
> 
> Scott