F7 install: grub prompt on reboot
Timothy Murphy
tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie
Mon Jun 4 21:32:06 UTC 2007
Colin Brace wrote:
> I've tried various settings on the #boot line in menu.lst to no avail;
> it keeps dropping me back in the grub prompt.
>
> At this point, I have absolutely no idea what I am doing; Any
> suggestions would be most welcome.
Why not try answering the grub prompt?
Start with
grub>root (hd0,1)
and similar, and see which grub likes.
Then
grub>kernel /vm<tab>
should offer various completions; add
grub>kernel /vmlinuz... root=LABEL=/
or whatever the label is.
(You have to use labelled partitions with F7, as far as I can see.)
Then
grub>initrd /init<tab>
and finally
grub>boot
> Also, where did I go wrong? Was it a mistake to let the installer
> configure (ie, update) Grub?
I suspect the fault lies in anaconda -
they seem to me to have screwed up the grub configuration.
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