booting stops at grub shell
V Krish
krish_uses_linux at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 19 02:36:14 UTC 2005
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
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--- 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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