Further to my last post, I was able to mount my partitions from the linux rescue command shell. Although I struggled abit, I was able to run the "grub-install /dev/hda" command successfully. When I rebooted the machine, this time I get past the GRUB message, but it stops at the "grub>" prompt. Why is it stopping here? My grub.conf looked good to me. Where do I go from here? Thanks again. John Rumball > Thanks for your responses guys. > > I tried booting off the FC1 CD #1 and went into rescue mode but > although it recognized the three partitions on my drive (hda1, hda2, > hda3) it could not mount any of them, saying something like: 'Unable to > mount /dev/hda1: Invalid argument' . The same thing happened on all > the other partitions, and then the rescue process terminated saying > that it could not find any Linux installations at all. > > I should mention that before trying this rescue mode I did upgrade the > BIOS on this Dell OptiPlex GX1 to rule out any outdated BIOS issues > with large disks. > > If you have any other ideas, I'd really like to hear them. > > Thanks, once again. > > John Rumball > > > On Wednesday 21 January 2004 11:47, Wolfgang wrote: > > > > > Boot your first Fedora CD and use it to boot to your hard drive > > > (Recovery mode if I remember). Once there, cd to your /boot/grub > > > directory. Then issue a 'grub-install /dev/hd? (hd? the drive you > wish > > > to boot from). Then reboot your system and it should work again. > > > > Or possibly "grub-install --recheck /dev/hda" > > > > -- > > Timothy Murphy > > e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie > > tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 > > s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland > > > > > > -- > > fedora-list mailing list > > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > > > -- > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > --
