Problems Installing Fedora x86_64

Daniel J Celta dcelta at gmail.com
Tue Jun 23 03:34:13 UTC 2009


Craig,
Like you said the command "grub-install -v /dev/sda" works.
It returs the following:

"grub-install (GNU GRUB 0.97)"

After exit the chroot and the shell reboot.
Andafter taking out the DVD,  the computer hangs and do not do  
anyting......????





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On Jun 22, 2009, at 1:45 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 19:06 -0500, Daniel J Celta wrote:
>> "blkid"
>> Returns the following:
>>
>> /dev/sda2: uuid="6xST10-Cskd-.........." TYPE="lvm2pv"
>> /dev/sdb1: uuid="-.........." TYPE="lvm2pv"
>> /dev/sdc1: uuid=".........." TYPE="lvm2pv"
>> /dev/sdd1: uuid=".........." TYPE="lvm2pv"
>> /dev/dm-0: uuid=".........." TYPE="ext3"
>> /dev/dm-1: uuid=".........." TYPE="swap"
>>
>>
>> I think you are right about the multiple installations.
>> I did try to reinstall 2 or 3 times hoping to overwrite and fix the
>> problem.......
>>
>> What should I do now?
>>
>> On Jun 21, 2009, at 6:46 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com>  
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 18:37 -0500, Daniel J Celta wrote:
>>>> When booting in rescue mode before I get to the command prompt I
>>>> get a
>>>> Rescue splash screen with an error message.
>>>> "An error occurred trying to mount some or all of your system. Some
>>>> of it may be mounted under /mnt/sysimage."
>>>>
>>>> At the command prompt
>>>> The "mount" command returns the following:
>>>>
>>>> A bunch of (rw) and one (ro)
>>>> the last one says:
>>>> "/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol100 on /mnt/sysimage type ext3
>>>> (rw,errors=continue,user_xattr,acl,data=ordered)"
>>> ----
>>> type blkid
>>>
>>> and it will tell us the LVM volumes and devices - sounds like you  
>>> may
>>> have more than 1 installation
>>>
>>> Craig
> ----
> given that output, there is no reason that running
>
> 'grub-install /dev/sda' should give you an error.
> you should be able to boot if you can run that command (booting into
> linux rescue mode and first, 'chroot /mnt/sysimage' as I described
> earlier.
>
> You can add a 'verbose' to that command...
>
> grub-install -v /dev/sda
>
> so that it provides more feedback. I have to believe that /dev/sda1
> is /boot and should have also been mounted during 'rescue' mode.
>
> Craig
>
>
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