[fedora-list] How do a fix a non working kernel installation ?

linux guy linuxguy123 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 16 18:59:58 UTC 2009


I downloaded the supergrub iso and installed it onto my usb drive.
When I boot from it, it gives me the grub> command line.  Is that a
sign I don't have the USB installation right or is that the tool that
I am supposed to use to fix my non booting drive ?

Thanks

On 7/16/09, linux guy <linuxguy123 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Here is my grub file.  The boot partition is /dev/sda1.  That should
> be hd0,0, right ?    The root partition is sda2.  That should be
> hd0,1, right ?
>
> Does anyone see anything wrong with my grub setup ?
>
> I don't understand how installing an f12 kernel and then uninstalling
> it could still result in a machine that won't boot.   Does f12 assume
> an ext4 filesystem or something ?  df thinks my file systems are all
> ext3.
>
> Thanks
>
> default=0
> timeout=15
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu
> title Fedora (2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586 ro
> root=UUID=f543d554-9344-4cad-a7da-47de47cd2665 rhgb quiet
>         initrd /initrd-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586.img
> title Fedora (2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586)
>         root (hd0,0)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586 ro
> root=UUID=f543d554-9344-4cad-a7da-47de47cd2665 rhgb quiet
>         initrd /initrd-2.6.29.4-167.fc11.i586.img
>
> On 7/16/09, Rich Mahn <rich at lat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I did that, twice, first off, before I ever posted to the group.   The
>>> f12 kernel installed to default 0 and then I had 2 f11 2.6.29 kernels
>>> in positions 1 and 2.  I changed the default to both of them and
>>> neither would boot.
>>
>> I have had this problem often when I've been moving disks around or
>> when I am testing out new operating systems.  It has always been
>> one of two things:
>>
>>   1. the BIOS has reordered disks and you aren't booting from the
>>      disk you want, or
>>   2. (similar to above), the disk identified in grub is the wrong one
>>      and needs to be dhanged.  Where you see something like
>>      root (hd0,0), you may need to change it to root(hd1,0).
>>
>> This can sometimes be caused by a USB device being present (or not).
>> If you loaded your OS with a USB drive, it may have shifted all the
>> hd's when creating the grub.conf file.
>>
>>
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