On Tue, 2004-06-01 at 09:12, Richard Emberson wrote: > 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 Looking at the info grub file, you should be able to run a command 'setup hd0', or possibly this should be 'setup (hd0)' not sure which, but you could try each. Scott
