grub.conf emptied, and now i get kernel panic?
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Sat Aug 27 01:52:41 UTC 2005
On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 01:37 +0930, Tim wrote:
> !down upside read don't I, post top not do Please
>
>
> Kahn Seidl:
>
> > /dev/hda1 1 1912 15358108+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> > /dev/hda2 1913 1925 104422+ 83 Linux
> > /dev/hda3 * 1926 3850 15462562+ 83 Linux
> > /dev/hda4 3851 7296 27679995 5 Extended
> > /dev/hda5 3851 7296 27679963+ 8e Linux LVM
>
> Looks like hda3 is the /boot partition, unless you've accidentally made
> the wrong partition active. I'd be guessing your partitions are
> something like this:
>
> hd0,0 or hda1 Windows
> hd0,1 or hda2 something for Linux
> hd0,2 or hda3 /boot
based on size of the partition I would guess hda2 (~100MB) is /boot and
hda3 (~15GB) is / (or something else linux).
He could boot to rescue mode to check that out.
> hd0,4 or hda5 logical volume containing / and most other partitions
>
> And I'd expect grub.conf to be something like:
>
> root (hd0,2)
> kernel /vmlinuz-something ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> initrd /initrd-something.img
>
> (With the "something" being whatever version numbers for your installed
> kernel. Boot the rescue disc and list the contents of the partitions to
> find what's on them.)
>
> On the other hand, if hda2 is your /boot partition, try replacing "root
> (hd0,2)" with "root (hd0,1)".
>
> > please note this is from a freshly installed fc4, not fc3. I would like to
> > retrieve my fc3 back.
>
> Huh? You've installed 4, this is 4, onto the same drive replacing it,
> and you want us to help you get 3 back? How?
>
>
>
>
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> everyone, particularly those most likely to help you.
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