freezing machine updated/upgraded to rawhide/current sulfur

[Richard Hally]

Antonio Olivares wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I have updated/upgraded the machine that was freezing all the time to Rawhide using Fedora Preview Iso + Updates.  
> 
> There is only one gotcha. Grub is not working correctly?
> 
> When starting up machine. IT does nothing it stays at 
> 
> GRUB
> 
> and stays there. I can successfully boot it using livecd's to boot the partition.
>

that grub-install /dev/sda1 may not have worked. since that is your win xp 
partition.

here is what I did:
boot from a CD that has rescue mode
do the chroot to /mnt/sysimage
run grub interactively
at the grub> prompt
grub> root (hd0,1)
grub> setup /dev/sda
grub>quit


that should put what grub needs in the MBR.

reboot

HTH
Richard
P.S. there are other emails about this in the archives.


> [students at localhost ~]$ cat /etc/fedora-release 
> Fedora release 9 (Sulphur)
> [students at localhost ~]$ uname -a
> Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 #1 SMP Thu May 1 06:28:41 EDT 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
> [students at localhost ~]$
> 
> I have already run grub-install /dev/sda1 from Fedora 9 Preview DVD to make sure everything is ok.   Is there anything that looks incorrect in grub.conf below.  
> 
> BTW: Machine does not freeze anymore.  Maybe it did not like Fedora 8.  
> 
> Thanks in Advanced,
> 
> Antonio
> 
> Here's smolt profile if useful/needed
> 
> http://www.smolts.org/client/show/pub_d987b6b2-71ec-4cfd-82c8-e822f9a5ec5a (public)
> 
> 
> Here's grub.conf and fdisk -l
> 
> [root at localhost ~]# yum update -y
> Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
> updates                                                  | 2.4 kB     00:00    
> fedora                                                   | 2.4 kB     00:00    
> adobe-linux-i386                                         |  951 B     00:00    
> Setting up Update Process
> No Packages marked for Update
> [root at localhost ~]# cat /boot/grub/grub.conf 
> # 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/sda
> default=0
> timeout=5
> splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu
> title Fedora (2.6.25-14.fc9.i686)
>     root (hd0,1)
>     kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 ro root=UUID=d82c76e1-bbe7-4a0d-94e9-711b3aea50db rhgb quiet
>     initrd /initrd-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.img
> title Fedora (2.6.25-0.234.rc9.git1.fc9.i686)
>     root (hd0,1)
>     kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25-0.234.rc9.git1.fc9.i686 ro root=UUID=d82c76e1-bbe7-4a0d-94e9-711b3aea50db rhgb quiet
>     initrd /initrd-2.6.25-0.234.rc9.git1.fc9.i686.img
> title Microsoft Windows XP Pro
>     rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>     chainloader +1
> [root at localhost ~]# fdisk -l
> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0xaf7caf7c
> 
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1       26108   209712478+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/sda2           31841       31865      200812+  83  Linux
> /dev/sda3           31866       38913    56613060   8e  Linux LVM
> /dev/sda4           26109       31840    46042290    5  Extended
> /dev/sda5           26109       26239     1052226   82  Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/sda6           26240       31840    44990001   83  Linux
> 
> Partition table entries are not in disk order
> 
> Disk /dev/dm-0: 56.8 GB, 56841207808 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 6910 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x00000000
> 
> Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table
> 
> Disk /dev/dm-1: 1073 MB, 1073741824 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 130 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x30307800
> 
> Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
> [root at localhost ~]# 
> 
> 
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