New FC6 upgrade just displays "grub" -

[Bob Goodwin]

Alastair Neil wrote:
>
>
> On 10/25/06, *Bob Goodwin* <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net 
> <mailto:bobgoodwin at wildblue.net>> wrote:
>
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>                             *I just tried an upgrade rather than a
>     complete
>                             reformat and install for the first time with
>                             Fedora anything.
>
>                             When it booted for the first time it stopped
>                             with "grub" printed to the screen and
>     apparently
>                             sits there in its editor function waiting for
>                             some command.  I don't know what it wants or
>                             what to do next.
>
>                             FC6 is installed on an 80g sata drive
>     replacing
>                             a working FC5 install.
>
>                             The "rescue disc" is not much help, probably
>                             because I don't know the right command?
>
>                             Any suggestions appreciated.
>
>                             Bob Goodwin*
>
>
> sounds similar to problem I experienced. 
> I booted into rescue mode then issued a chroot /mnt/sysimage.
> cd /boot/grub and check the device.map file. Assuming your system disk 
> is /dev/sda it should have:
>
> (hd0) /dev/sda
>
> if it doesn't, modify it so it does and run:
>
> grub-install /dev/sda
>
> Also check the /boot/grub.conf file and see if the various files are 
> being referenced to the correct device partition,  it should be 
> (hd0,0) if your system drive is the first device.
>
> Hope this helps, Alastair

Yes it helps, now if I can fix the problem.

device.map  appears corrupted:

(fd0)   /dev/fd0
(hd0)   /dev/st
d
(hd1)   /dev/sdb

My big problem is "vi"

I have never learned the commands and it's a science project every time 
I am forced to use it!
I normally use a simple text editor called e3em which uses emacs 
commands.  I'll muddle through.

Thanks.

Bob Goodwin