FC10 stops at Grub> prompt after install

[Beartooth]

On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:52:26 -0500, Chris Tyler wrote:
	[....]
> This can happen when the BIOS's view of the drives (seen by grub while
> booting) doesn't match the kernel's view (seen by grub when installing).
> 
> Try booting the rescue disc and performing these steps:

	Finally got around to this today. It worked; many many thanks! I 
had to mess around a while in some places -- perhaps because I've only 
been running linux since RH7; I got two or three books with media for 
RH6, but could never manage to install it ....
 
> (1) Run: grub --device-map=/tmp/drivemap 
> (2) Exit from grub.

	For us hoi polloi, you might want to mention using "quit" instead 
of "exit."

> (3) Edit /tmp/drivemap to reverse the mapping of drives that are "seen"

	I chewed a while on that, too. Finally decided to start with 
switching the sda and hda locations -- luckily.

> (4) Re-run: grub --device-map=/tmp/drivemap 

	Chewed some more, before I realized I had to go through the 
chroot routine; I had never realized you could invoke grub as a command 
on a booted and running machine -- d'uhhh ....

> (5) Re-install grub, i.e.,
> by following steps 2-5 from this article [0] (It doesn't hurt to install
> the boot code on both drives in step 5 just in case, i.e., setup hd(0)
> followed by setup hd(1) -- both will point to the partition you
> identified with root(hdX,Y). The bios will usually boot from what it
> sees as hd(0) but there are exceptions).

	The machine in need had only one hard drive; so I skipped the 
second half.
 
> (It is possible to access this functionality through anaconda, too --
> there's a checkbox that lets you see "Extended GRUB options" or
> something like that on the bootloader screen).

	How do you get into anaconda -- is there a way without a rescue 
disk?
 
> Let us know how it goes--

> [0] http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/158-.html

	Hadn't ever heard of dailypackage; many thanks! Heavy stuff, at 
least for subtechnoids, but very well written. Kudos & thanks to the 
author!
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