what is the grub step?!

[Kenny Gow]

jackc wrote:
> thx craig,
> 
> i will try that first ting in the am, this is the second time
> through, i thought it had crashed so i was watching the install
> and i didnt see any errors, but neither did it work correctly.
> 
> i used the autodruid to partition, took what i though were the
> defaults, delete all partitions, not just the linux partitions,
> where do you suspect i went wrong?
> 
> tia, jackc...
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 17:47 -0700, Craig White wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 16:42 -0800, jackc wrote:
>>
>>>hi gang,
>>>
>>>so i load the 4 fc 4 cd's and after loaded the it says it wants to do a
>>>graphical portion, reboots and i am looking a
>>>
>>>grub> 
>>>
>>>prompt!!
>>>
>>>what the heck is supposed to happen now?! is this normal?!
>>>
>>
>>----
>>no - not normal
>>
>>sounds as if you didn't allow grub to install the necessary stuff
>>into /dev/hda
>>
>>try this...
>>
>>boot disk 1
>>skip media check
>>type 'linux rescue' and press enter at boot prompt
>>
>>when finished loading...
>>
>>type 'chroot /mnt/sysimage'
>>type 'grub-install -v /dev/hda'
>>
>>type 'exit'
>>type 'exit'
>>
>>see if it reboots
>>
>>note - don't include the single quotes - they were for your
>>identification only
>>
>>Craig
>>
You probably did nothing wrong. It's happened to me before and
I've seen numerous posts reporting this on fedoraforum. Apparently
somehow grub does not get setup correctly even though the rest of
the install went just fine.

The solution is to just reinstall grub as shown above or with
the rescue CD. Even grub-install sometimes doesn't work just
right, so if you are really careful, you can install grub with
the root and setup commands, as shown here:

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Installing-GRUB-natively.html#Installing%20GRUB%20natively

--Kenny