booting stops at grub shell

[Paul Howarth]

On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 19:36 -0700, V Krish wrote:

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> Thanks for your reply. My filesystems are ext3. 
> I did the 'find' and then the 'configfile'.

What was the output of the find command? (hd1,0)?

>  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

It's normal for /dev/hdb1 to map to grub device (hd1,0), so I'd expect
the find command to locate this grub configuration file there. If it's
elsewhere, the (hd1,0) entries in the file need changing to whatever the
output of the find command is.

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>