On May 20, 2004 at 12:53, B.J. McClure in a soothing rage wrote: >Greetings. > >Clean install of FC2 would not boot. Grub supposedly installed to MBR >of 40 gig IDE. No other OS installed. Boot attempts failed with the >word "GRUB" displayed. No command line. Rescue disk could not locate >grub.conf. Tried writing to /boot, that didn't work either. Did >several fresh installs with identical results. You know you only need one fresh install. >Replaced 40 gig IDE with 20 gig IDE...same result. Finally tried Custom >> minimal install on 20 gig drive and it booted normally to CUI. Then >upgraded the install to "Workstation" default apps without rewriting the >MBR. Rebooted and it hung with grub> displayed. Keyed in usual >grub.conf lines, issued boot command and it did, GUI and all. > >Searched for grub.conf and there was none. Created grub.conf in >/boot/grub and all is well. > >WHY? Er, you got issues (-: Jokes aside, we need to know more about your hardware. Plus you need to boot with the rescue disk, chroot /mnt/sysimage, make sure a suitable /boot/grub/grub.conf exists and then grub-install --recheck /dev/hda . N.Emile... -- Registered Linux User # 125653 (http://counter.li.org) Switch to: http://www.speakeasy.net/refer/190653 Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things. Angels we have heard on High Tell us to go out and Buy. -- Tom Lehrer 08:35:14 up 3 days, 13:25, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
