what is the grub step?!

[jackc]

well, after i went home there was a building power failure
so that may have altered results, but...

i power on the box and i get to the grub prompt.
i insert disk 1, reboot and at the boot prompt
enter the 'linux rescue'

after asking me the ip, etc, it drops me to the shell
where i gave the chant you provided below. each step
completed without error.

however on reboot i forgot to remove the cd so i am
walking the install again as should be my punishment 
for the lapse.

wonder how many times i can step on my own tail in this?! :(

more soon, thx to all that have replied, 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
> 
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