On Thu, 2005-01-27 at 16:46 -0600, Jonathan Berry wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2005 11:45:23 -0500, Trey Sizemore <trey@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Terry Polzin wrote: > > >On Thursday 27 January 2005 09:45, Krzysztof Kujawski wrote: > > >>I haven't wiped out any partitions. > > >>I tried chroot /mnt/sysimage as rescue CD let me. > > >> > > >>But I don't know how to exit and reboot from shell -- rescue CD wrote that > > >>after command chroot /mnt/sysimage > > >>exit from shell and the system will be reboot. > > >> > > >>Exit not results in rebooting. > > >> > > >>Id this command in one line? > > >> > > >>chroot /mnt/sysimage/sbin/grub-install /dev/hd(3) > > > > > >No, it's two command lines > > >chroot /mnt/sysimage -- makes the / command tree you would have after a normal > > >boot effective ( you are no longer running commands from the > > >rescue /bin, /sbin directories) > > > > > >The /sbin/grub-install /dev/hd(x) should re-write the MBR. > > > > > >Then exit twice, the first one will return you to the rescue environment, the > > >second will reboot the system. > > > > > > > > Now that I've done this, when I select /dev/hdb1 to boot from in GAG, I > > get a grub> prompt? How can I get this to show me the option for Fedora > > or boot directly into fedora? > > You get a "grub>" prompt if GRUB cannot find a config file. Either > this file is not there, or GRUB is just not finding it. There should > be a /boot/grub/grub.conf file with links to it from /etc/grub.conf > and /boot/grub/menu.lst Boot from the rescue CD and see if you can > find any of the above files. If so, look at them and report back the > content. Do you have a /boot/ partition? If so, you should point > grub-install to that partition instead of / It shouldn't even be necessary to boot into the rescue CD as grub has a "find" command you could use. grub> find /boot/grub/grub.conf (if you don't have a separate /boot partition) grub> find /grub/grub.conf (if you do have a separate /boot partition) grub should tell you the partition name where it finds this file, e.g.: (hd1,0) So you should then be able to select the menu from that partition: grub> configfile (hd1,0)/boot/grub/grub.conf or grub> configfile (hd1,0)/grub/grub.conf depending on whether or not you have a separate /boot partition. If both "find" commands return nothing, you'll probably need to boot the rescue CD and create a /boot/grub/grub.conf file by hand. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
