FC4 Grub install problems
Tamer Higazi
tamer23 at myrealbox.com
Fri Jul 15 23:17:45 UTC 2005
Is SATA also be treaten as IDE ?! I thought it is treaten as SCSI....
It is only a suggestion. If it is treaton on the linux box as scsi, then
the devices are numbered from /dev/sd0 to ....
Am Freitag, den 15.07.2005, 17:38 -0500 schrieb Jeff Vian:
> On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 18:31 -0400, David Niemi wrote:
> > I just installed FC4 i386_x64 onto a system with 2 IDE drives (ntfs) and
> > 2 SATA drives. The system is set to boot from the first SATA drive in
> > the BIOS which I installed fedora to. The upgrade FC3 -> FC4 appeared
> > to go well except for the installation of grub. System ran great with
> > FC3.
> >
> > When trying to boot all I get is "GRUB" no prompt or anything. Booting
> > from the DVD in rescue mode, mounting the installed FC4 and running
> > grub, things appear to not work right. At the grub prompt I cannot get
> > any of the TAB completions.
> >
> > With the old installation grub referenced (hd0,0) now it seems that it
> > is (hd2,0). It seems that all of the proper files are located in the
> > boot partition.
> >
> > should I:
> > - edit the /boot/grub.grub.conf to refer to (hd2,0)
> > - issue grub commands:
> > GRUB> root (hd2,0)
> > GRUB> setup (hd2)
> >
>
> Check the mapping of drives in /boot/grub/device.map
>
> And yes, if the mapping is correct you may need to fix the grub install.
>
> > Thanks
> > Dave
> >
>
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