booting stops at grub shell

[V Krish]

Thanks for your reply. My filesystems are ext3. 
I did the 'find' and then the 'configfile'. Now, I get
"Error 17: Cannot mount select partition".

I wonder if this has something to do with my 300GB
drive which I put in as the master drive. Earlier I
had a 80GB drive.

The contents of the grub.conf are as follows:
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358smp)
	root (hd1,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358smp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358smp.img
title Fedora Core-up (2.6.5-1.358)
	root (hd1,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb
quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img

The filesystems are as follows:
/dev/hdb2  /
/dev/hdb1  /boot
none       /dev/shm
/dev/hda2  /usr1
/dev/hdb3  /usr2


Thank you,
Krish
-----------------------------------------------

--- Scott Talbot <talbotscott at cox.net> wrote:

> V Krish wrote:
> 
> >I had Fedora Core 2 on my machine. When one of the
> >internal disk drives failed, I put in a new 300GB
> >drive as the master drive. I also re-installed
> Fedora
> >Core 2 from scratch on this drive. The boot process
> >now stops at the grub prompt. If I try 'boot', the
> >message is "kernel not loaded" or something
> similar.
> >What may cause this?
> >
> >Thank you
> >Krish
> >  
> >
>     The good news is that grub is installed fine,
> however for some 
> reason it cannot find /grub/grub.conf.  One
> possibility is that your 
> /boot is a Reiserfs partition (for some reason Grub
> doesn't like that 
> too well).
> 
>     If you have /boot in a ext2 or ext3 (ext2 is
> better imo, I don't 
> recall if it is discouraged).  Anyway try this.
> 
> GRUB>find /grub/grub.conf
> 
>     This will likely return the name of the
> partition that has grub.conf 
> on it. If it should fail to find grub,  You'll need
> to boot into CD 1. 
> At the prompt enter linux rescue.  Follow directions
> till you get to the 
> part where it tells you to enter chroot
> /mnt/sysimage, then to 
> grub-install /dev/hda (assuming that your Bios is
> set to boot the 
> primary master hard drive). after that type exit
> <enter> and reboot your 
> computer to see if it works.
> 
> Another possibility that I've seen is that you might
> have 2 /boot 
> directories (this confuses linux!) or if you left
> the /boot entry from 
> your FC3 and are now using the same partition as
> root (actually I never 
> saw this, and I'm not sure this could cause a
> problem. I currently have  
> /boot for FC4 and a boot within a Rawhide distro
> with no problems.  You 
> could try findfs LABEL=/boot to see if you have a
> partition.
> 
> if the find command returned for example (hd0,0) you
> could type:
> GRUB>configfile(hd0,0)/grub/grub.conf
> which should load the config file and allow you to
> boot Fedora
> 
> HTH
> 
> Scott
> 
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