New FC6 upgrade just displays "grub" -

[Alastair Neil]

Sounds like the PAE kernel "Physical Address Extensions" did you say you
wanted to address more that 4Gbytes of memory?


On 10/25/06, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:
>
> Bob Goodwin wrote:
> > Alastair Neil wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 10/25/06, *Bob Goodwin* <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
> >> <mailto:bobgoodwin at wildblue.net>> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>                             *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
> >
> Ok, I managed to repair GRUB but now when it boots I have two options,
> the one it wants to boot [highlighted], the second line, is shown as
> fc6PAE?
>
> More cryptic stuff.  perhaps someone can tell me what that's about?
>
> Bob Goodwin
>
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