On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 11:25:41 +0200 (CEST), Hans Troost wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Thanks for your extensive answer and explanations: something to study for > me, but in the meanwhile I think I understand most of it. > > Also executed all repair steps as you recommended, starting with booting > using the interactive GRUB commands that you showed. Perfect!! > > So I repaired both FSTAB and GRUB.CONF as you told me and re-installed GRUB. > > But... the system still won't boot and end up with the GRUB-prompt. > > Can it be the following: > 1. for the dual-boot installation with XP I had to copy the boot-partition > to a file and use it in my XP-boot process, according to > http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.htm. > > 2. Do I have to re-do this now to get my machine back to normal, > succesfull linux boot? Yes. Note, though, that it's not necessary everytime you modify grub.conf or install/erase a kernel. > Or is something else still rotten? No. The loaded part of GRUB just doesn't know which config file to load. It would find the config file, if you entered find /grub/grub.conf at the GRUB prompt. But you can have more than one /boot partition and many more files named grub.conf. So GRUB needs to be pointed to the proper partition. The grub-install did that, but you're using the old bootblock from within NT loader. -- Fedora Core release 2.92 (FC3 Test 3) - Linux 2.6.9-1.640 loadavg: 0.00 0.05 0.09
