Installed FC4 all I get is grub>... Help

[ryan]

Don wrote:

> Mike, Thanks, sorry I missed this message.
>
> Trying what you suggested, I do not have a complete installation.
>
> You suggest "If it turns out that you have an incomplete GRUB install, 
> then
> you might try booting a rescue CD with GRUB on it, and using
> the GRUB emulation mode to install GRUB on your hard drive."
>
> I do have an rescue CD, I am now booted, how do I go into emulation 
> mode and restore GRUB.
>
> Even if this works, my new concern will be what else is not installed.
>
> I have installed FC4 3 times, all the packages, tested the media. 
> Maybe its one of the packages?
> Don
>
> At 06:29 AM 7/3/2005, you wrote:
>
>> Don wrote:
>>
>>> I tried setup (hd1,10 and got
>>> Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
>>>
>>> How do I know what the parameters should be?
>>> Thanks
>>
>>
>> This is indeed a sticky question, as the only answer is "however
>> you set up your machine".
>>
>> GRUB has the ability to do some "find" operations.
>>
>> You need to
>>
>> find /boot/grub/stage1
>> and
>> find /boot/grub/stage2
>>
>> Your BIOS loads only one sector from disc, and jumps to it.
>> This is not enough room for GRUB to do its job, so it loads
>> stage1 which can read more file system stuff, and which then
>> loads stage2 which does more of the real work. Without those
>> two stages, GRUB can't work. So you need to find where they are.
>>
>> We can't possibly tell you where to look, because we don't know
>> your setup. And if you knew your setup, you wouldn't have a problem.
>>
>> However, I can possibly help you find out what your setup is, and
>> get past this.
>>
>> You have to tell GRUB where to look on your hard drive. You do this
>> with the "root" command. But to use that, you need to know how
>> GRUB names discs.
>>
>> Your first drive is named (hd0). Your second drive is named (hd1).
>> Partition names are like disc names, but they have a partition number
>> in them, like this "(hd0,0)". This is the name of the first partition
>> on disc 1. The third partition on disc 2 would be named "(hd1,2)".
>>
>> So, set the root of your file system to each partition you have and try
>> the "find" command, like this:
>>
>> root (hd0,0)
>> find /boot/grub/stage1
>>
>> If this fails, then try
>>
>> root (hd0,1)
>> find /boot/grub/stage1
>>
>> Keep trying each partition of your first hard disc. If you run off
>> your first hard disc, then try your second hard disc like this
>>
>> root (hd1,0)
>> find /boot/grub/stage1
>>
>> root (hd1,1)
>> find /boot/grub/stage1
>>
>> until you get a hit.
>>
>> If you never find /boot/grub/stage1 then you have an incomplete
>> install of GRUB, and you won't be able to get off the ground.
>>
>> Now, you may not know what your partition setup is. I suggest
>> you use a rescue disc of some sort. Can you boot from CDROM?
>> If so, then boot a rescue disc and use whatever utilities are present
>> to find out what your hard disc setup is.
>>
>> Now, supposing that you find a hit, and you can find both
>> /boot/grub/stage1 and /boot/grub/stage2 then you are nearly
>> there.
>>
>> You next need to load a kernel. You do this with the kernel
>> command. First, issue the "root" command which worked with
>> the "find" above. Then
>>
>> kernel /vmlinuz...
>>
>> Where the "..." represents stuff that is peculiar to your kernel distro.
>> I don't know what to put there, but I believe that GRUB will try
>> auto-completion if you use the TAB key. After the name of the kernel,
>> you need to put whatever arguments to the kernel it needs. On my
>> machine, for example, I need "acpi=off".
>>
>> If that works, then you need to load your initial RAM disc
>>
>> initrd /initrd...
>>
>> where again you probably need to use auto-completion to find the exact
>> name.
>>
>> At this point, you are ready to go, and can issue the "boot" command.
>>
>> boot
>>
>> A complete set of commands for my machine, which boots FC2 is:
>>
>> root (hd0,2)
>> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.771_FC2 ro root=LABEL=/ acpi=off rhgb quiet
>> initrd initrd-2.6.10-1.771_FC2.img
>> boot
>>
>> You probably need the "ro", you probably need the "root=LABEL=/", you
>> may or may not need the "acpi=off", and "rhgb quiet" just makes things
>> a little less noisy.
>>
>> Hope that helped some.
>>
>> Mike
>>
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Try minimal install. Once complete add in what you need using:
yum groupinstall KDE (for example).

yum grouplist will show you options.