On Mon, 2005-02-14 at 15:56 -0500, Gentian Hila wrote: > Hi, > > I installed fedora 3 on my machine which has a windows xp in it as > well. I installed GRUB as the boot loader not in MBR but in Fedora > partition. Seems to be grub day today. > Strangely enough, (very different from FC1 and previous RedHat > versions), fedora did not ask me to create a boot disk. Current kernels are too big for a floppy - as you apparently already learned from comment below. > So I cannot boot to fedora. I do not want to install GRUB on MBR. Why not? That seems like the cleanest solution. > I > tried to enter in linux rescue mode and create a bootdisk through > mkbootdisk but it didnt work since the system is mounted in > /mnt/sysimage and the kernel is looked up in /lib/modules. Did you do "# chroot /mnt/sysimage"? > I tried to create a floppy boot disk in another machine that had FC3 > but it was bigger that a floppy, so then I created a CD boot disk > through mkbootdisk. > > Now when I used that boot cd I typed linux > root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 (this is weird because fedora 1 was on > /dev/hdc5 which I tried without success as well) because there it > says that Fedora is installed, but for some reason it fails to mount > the system. > > It says: > > mount: error 6 mounting ext3 > mount: error 2 mounting none > switchroot: mount failed 22 > unmount .initrd/dev failed 2 > Kernel panic - not syncing Attempted to kill init. ! The iso boot image probably has an inappropriate initrd. > > How can I start Fedora 3 ? How can I create a cd or whatever to make it work ? > > Please help as I am completely stuck ...... As discussed in recent "Re: Grub loading stage2 error" thread - you need to get the windows bootloader to chain to grub on the boot partition if you don't want to use GRUB in the MBR. I have no experience doing it, but know it is possible. Phil
