grub problem

[Paulo Cavalcanti]

On Feb 9, 2008 11:03 AM, don vogt <donvogt2001 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> I am stuck in a pretty complete disaster and grub
> won't help me out of it. It is a long story, but here
> is a summary
> I bought a pci/USB2.0 card with the idea of digitizing
> some slides.
> I installed the card and after that fc7 wouldn't read
> the card. So I rebooted into XP to see if it would
> work there.XP started to boot and about 8 seconds
> later the display changed to a blue screen with an
> incomprohensible error message and froze.
>  I use the XP system to access some sites that won't
> work with linux, so I reinstalled XP (not a pleasant
> experience!). I knew that would trash my grub setup on
> the MBR, but I thought I knew how to redo grub from my
> fc7 livecd.
>
> The method I tried was to run grub and enter
> find /grub/grub.conf
> it answered (hd0,1)  (which is my /boot partition)
> I entered   root (hd0,1)
> no answer, just the prompt back
> I entered setup (hd0)
> it answered with some comments about searching for
> some stage files. it found stages 1,2,and1.5
> then it said "Running imbed /grub/e2fs-stage1_5 (hd0)
> 15 sectors asre embedded succeeded"
> then it said install /grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+15
> (hd0,1)/grub/stage2 grub.conf  succeeded "
>  That all looks good to me so I backed out and
> rebooted without the CD.
> Instead of the grub menu I get a little trash and a
> lot of blank screen.
>
> I downloaded the rescuecd iso, burned it and booted
> that and tried the same thing with the same result.
>
> Here is my grub.conf in case it helps.
>
>
>
> # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> #
> # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making
> changes to this file
> # NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means
> that
> #          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to
> /boot/, eg.
> #          root (hd0,1)
> #          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro
> root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> #          initrd /initrd-version.img
> boot=/dev/hda
> default=0
> timeout=5
> splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> #hiddenmenu
> title Fedora (2.6.23.14-64.fc7)
>
>        root (hd0,1)
>        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.14-64.fc7 ro root=LABEL=main
>
>        initrd /initrd-2.6.23.14-64.fc7.img
>
> title Fedora (2.6.23.12-52.fc7)
>
>        root (hd0,1)
>        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.12-52.fc7 ro root=LABEL=main
>
>        initrd /initrd-2.6.23.12-52.fc7.img
>
> title WIN98
>        rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>        chainloader +1
> title XP
>        rootnoverify (hd1)
>        map (hd0) (hd1)
>        map (hd1) (hd0)
>        chainloader +1
>
>
> Can Anyone see what I am doing wrong or have another
> suggestion on how to get grub fixed.
>
>
Boot using the installation  DVD.  Choose  repair  installation (or
something similar, I do not remember).

At the prompt, type:

chroot /mnt/sysimage

grub-install /dev/hda


-- 
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti
LCG - UFRJ
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