I have been able to boot from the Fedora CD and go into rescue mode and mount the system under /mnt/sysimage. I assume pico, vi, and emacs all run though I haven't tried them. I was assuming it was a hardware physical configuration error on my part. I can't remember off hand what partitions are where but I think /boot is on hda and FC1 root is probably on /hdb2 Matthew Polashek Associate Editor, Silver Burdett Ginn - Music Scott Foresman/Pearson Education 299 Jefferson Road Parsippany, NJ 07054-0480 office: 973.739.8709 fax: 973.739.8098 Matthew.Polashek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > ---------- > From: Mitch Wiedemann > Reply To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Sent: Monday, March 1, 2004 1:21 PM > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Install problem > > A couple questions: > > 1. are you able to use vi to edit a text file? > 2. do you know which partitions (e.g. /dev/hda1) you're using? Most > specifically, your FC1 root "/" partition? > > If so, then you can probably boot from your FC1 CD into "rescue" mode to > fix your grub.conf file. > > Let us know, and we'll go from there. > > Polashek, Matthew wrote: > > >Hi! > > I just installed fedora on my machine and when booting after the > >install I get a GRUB> prompt instead of the normal bootloader GUI screen. > I > >had Fedora working and then I added a second hard drive before the > install > >and I think that might be the problem. Any ideas? I have been thinking > it > >might be the order of the drives on the IDE cable. > > > > > -- > Mitch Wiedemann > mc2 Computer Consulting > mc2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.lightlink.com/mc2 > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > **************************************************************************** This email may contain confidential material. If you were not an intended recipient, please notify the sender and delete all copies. We may monitor email to and from our network. ****************************************************************************
