Phil Schaffner wrote:
On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 08:09 -0700, Richard Emberson wrote:
I have an older machine that can not boot from cdrom. Also, I had
some user data in one of the accounts.
So I mounted disc1, copied vmlinuz and initrd.img to /boot, unmounted
disc1, added entry to /etc/grub.conf, then rebooted:
mount /dev/cdrom
cp -a /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/vmlinuz /boot/FC2-install
cp -a /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/initrd.img /boot/FC2-install.img
umount /mnt/cdrom
and add entry like:
title Fedora Core 2 Installation
root (hd0,0)
kernel /FC2-install
initrd /FC2-install.img
to /etc/grub.conf (use /boot/FC2... when not relative to /boot)
Everything was going along fine; I did an upgrade (not install) and
after 1 1/2 hours it said that the installation was a success and that
I should click the reboot button ... which I did.
Well, reboot started out ok, there was a single boot option on the
grub boot page, but then it asked me to insert disc1. I did so
and it then asked me if I wanted to upgrade or install.
hmmm.....
I selected upgrade and it proceeded to "upgrade" a php rpm from disc1
and compat-db rpm from disc3 and announced that the installation was
successful and that I should click on the reboot button.
Ok, reboot started and then once again it requested that I insert disc1
and once again it installed the same two rpm's, php from disc1 and
compat-db from disc3 and announced that the installation was a success.
I tried one more time with the same result.
So how do I break out of this? I really dont care about either
php or compat-db, I'd like to somehow bypass installing them and
get on with the boot. Are there parameters one can give at the grub
command line to force a kernel load?
Help! Thanks.
Hummm... Looks like anaconda didn't correctly update the bootloader,
which should have been the default. Did you tell it not to update GRUB
during the upgrade? Possible confusion between MBR and boot record of
During the upgrade I did NOT tell it to upgrade GRUB (I followed the
recommendation to not upgrade...) During the first and second attempt
to reboot, again, I did not tell it to upgrade. During the third attempt
I did tell it to upgrade, but at the end of the upgrade it told me that
because no new kernel was installed there was not need to upgrade.
the active partition? If you did request that the bootloader be
updated, and don't find another head-slapper cause, then this is one for
Bugzilla.
You should be able to recover either by booting from the rescue disk
image and following directions, or by using the command line in GRUB.
GRUB command-line completion with TAB should help.
Unfortunately, my machine, an old VA Research box (when they were
in Moutain View), does not have boot from CD capability.
I will attempt to recover via the GRUB command-line. THANKs.
Question: How from within the GRUB command line interface can I get
the names of the kernel and initrd files in the /boot directory?
What if they are not: vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 and initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img?
At the menu type "c" for a command line, then assuming a standard
kernel, /boot is /dev/hda1, and / is labeled:
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/
initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
boot
If you get it started, then add the following stanza
to /boot/grub/grub.conf
title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
May need to run "grub-install" if the boot device (e.g. MBR vs. active
partition) is/was incorrect.
Phil
