On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 13:14:22 -0500, jim lawrence <fedorajim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 19:05:57 +0100, Alexander Dalloz <ad+lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Am So, den 09.01.2005 schrieb jim lawrence um 18:57: > > > > > -- it says starting grub stage2... then the cursor sits under > > > neath that line > > > > So it does not find stage 2. > > > > > jim lawrence > > > > What is the content of your grub.conf? > > What does "fdisk -l" print out? > > > > Alexander > device boot start end blocks id system > ************************************************************* > dev.hda1 * 1 1275 7 ntfs > dev/hda2 1276 1288 83 linux > dev.hda3 1289 2498 f W95 Ext'd (LBA) > dev/hda5 1289 1416 82 Linux Swap > dev/hda6 1417 2498 83 linux > > my question is where is the boot partition i created, and where id hda4 ? > > if i need to reinstall > i have a win98 boot floppy could i do > > fdisk /mbr It looks like perhaps the boot partition is hda2. Can you mount it somewhere when booting from the rescue disk and see what is in it? Or type "mount" to see if it was automatically mounted. If it contains kernel images and a grub/ directory, then it is the boot partition. You need to then change your grub.conf entry to read: > title fedora core 2.6.9-1.667 > root (hd0,2) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=label=/1 rhgb quiet > initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img It would not hurt to remove the "rhgb" and "quite" parameters either. If none of this works, try reinstalling grub after booting to rescue disk and the chroot. The command is: grub-install /dev/hda If grub won't detect your boot partition, I think there are probably parameters that you can pass it to force it to do the right thing. The fdisk /mbr from the Win98 boot disk will get you to where you can boot Windows again, but will not fix grub. No need to do this to reinstall Fedora (or Windows), just boot from the CD. To answer your question about hda4, hda1 - 4 are primary partitions, so extended logical partitions have to start with hda5. So, hda3 is the primary partition corresponding to your extended partition and hda5 is the first logical partition in that. Actually, you can skip numbers if you really wanted to. There is no need to have an hda2, for instance, but it makes sense to. Mostly this can happen if you delete two partitions and make them one big partition. Jonathan
