FC4 Grub install problems

[Antonio Olivares]

--- David Niemi <drn_temp2 at rogers.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2005-16-07 at 13:48 +0100, Timothy Murphy
> wrote:
> > Tamer Higazi wrote:
> > 
> > > 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 ....
> > 
> > >> > 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)
> > 
> > Not sure if this is relevant,
> > but I had a similar problem on a machine with two
> SCSI disks
> > and a large IDE disk which I had added for
> archiving.
> > FC-4 seemed to give my IDE disk precedence,
> > although the BIOS looked at my SCSI disk first.
> > 
> > My problem was solved just by saying
> > 
> >         grub-install --recheck /dev/sda
> > 
> > However, this may not be relevant to your
> situation.
> On Fri, 2005-15-07 at 17:38 -0500, Jeff Vian wrote: 
> > Check the mapping of drives in
> /boot/grub/device.map
> > 
> Thanks for the responses last week but I've been
> unable to follow up till
> now.
> 
> The device.map is from the FC3 installation which
> lists hd0,0 whereas the find 
> /grub/grub.conf finds it on (hd2,0).  When I ran the
> above commands (root &
> setup) things worked fine but I still end up with
> the system halting at GRUB
> when I try booting from the HD. I had changed the
> grub.conf file to refer to
> the (hd2,0) instead of (hd0,0)
> 
> So it isn't finding the /grub/grub.conf?  Now what
> should I try?

Look for /boot/grub/grub.conf.  This is usually how it
is named.  The other "/grub/grub.conf" seems weird
unless named by user.

Kind Regards,

Antonio
> 
> Thanks
>   Dave
> 
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