Paul Howarth wrote:
Mark Sargent wrote:
Paul Howarth wrote:
Mark Sargent wrote:
Mark Sargent wrote:
Paul Howarth wrote:
On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 20:24 +0900, Mark Sargent wrote:
Paul Howarth wrote:
On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 16:24 +0900, Mark Sargent wrote:
Hi All,
after not finding any solution for my previous FC2 install(couldn't load X system), I went ahead and did a fresh install of FC3 on to another partition. I didn't create another boot partition, as I was thinking I could either redirect grub to the boot dir for the new install or copy the dir/files onto the existing boot partition. Which way would you do/have done it..? Cheers.
new install = /dev/hda5
boot partition = /dev/hda9
old install = /dev/hda12
I usually install with multiple partitions/logical volumes anyway.
I assume that your entire new installation went into /dev/hda5 and you
didn't tell the installer to re-use the existing /boot partition
in /dev/hda9?
You can configure your existing FC2 grub to chain-load the FC3 grub
from /dev/hda5, or you could copy the grub.conf kernel entries from your
FC3 install into your FC2 grub.conf. I would do the former rather than
the latter, because the latter would require you to repeat the operation
every time you upgraded the FC3 kernel.
If you post the output of "fdisk -l /dev/hda" and your FC2 grub.conf
file, you might get more specific help.
Paul.
Hi All,
here is what was asked for. FC2 grub.conf and fdisk output,
Grub:
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,9)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda11
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,8)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
password --md5 $1$zVCW8EN2$ZVsfDdJMJGmcxb/qge15k0
title Fedora Core (2.6.10-1.14_FC2)
root (hd0,8)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.14_FC2 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.10-1.14_FC2.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.10-1.12_FC2)
root (hd0,8)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.10-1.12_FC2 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.10-1.12_FC2.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.11_FC2)
root (hd0,8)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.11_FC2 ro root=/dev/hda12 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.11_FC2.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.6_FC2)
root (hd0,8)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.6_FC2 ro root=/dev/hda12 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.6_FC2.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358)
root (hd0,8)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=/dev/hda12 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
My, what a lot of kernels you still have!
FDisk: Disk /dev/hda: 45.0 GB, 45020602368 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5473 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 510 4096543+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 511 5473 39865297+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 * 511 1020 4096543+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda6 1021 2138 8980303+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda7 2139 3688 12450343+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda8 3689 3943 2048256 b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda9 3944 3956 104391 83 Linux
/dev/hda10 3957 4086 1044193+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda11 4087 4596 4096543+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/hda12 4709 5473 6144831 83 Linux
Paul, I also tried to point grub to the partition like below, but, it generated errors,
root (hd0,4) filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7
setup (hd0)
Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition
Didn't you install grub in /dev/hda5 during your FC3 install? If so, why
are you trying to reinstall grub?
Don't un this, as I can mount the partition under the old install like so,
mount -t ext3 /dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5
And, I also don' un why it shows as HPFS/NTFS when I formatted as ext3.
The partition type entries in the partition table don't have to
accurately represent the filesystems those partitions are formatted
with, but it causes some confusion (e.g. for grub) when they don't. You
can use fdisk ("t" command) to fix the partition types. Did you delete a
4GB NTFS partition and use the space to install FC3?
If you installed grub in the root partition (/dev/hda5, not the MBR) during your FC3 install, you should already have grub installed in (hd0,4) and the following addition to your FC2 grub.conf should be sufficient to run it:
title Fedora Core 3 rootnoverify (hd0,4) chainloader +1
Paul.
Hi All,
Paul, I got the following at boot,
Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format
I also made the change with the t command in fdisk, and made the ID = 83. I definitely have a /boot dir on hd4. Cheers.
So you probably did not install grub on /dev/hda5 when you did the FC3 installation.
below is the output of the boot dir on hda5,
total 2.6M drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4.0K Mar 12 21:45 . drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4.0K Mar 7 23:19 .. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Mar 12 21:45 bootdiroutput -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 50K Nov 3 04:53 config-2.6.9-1.667 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4.0K Mar 7 23:20 grub -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 384K Mar 7 22:58 initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 698K Nov 3 04:53 System.map-2.6.9-1.667 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.4M Nov 3 04:53 vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667
Cheers.
P.S. bootdiroutput is the file created that contains this output.(if that makes any sense).
Try booting from the FC3 rescue CD, get to the command prompt, and do:
# chroot /mnt/sysimage # grub-install /dev/hda5 # reboot
See how that goes.
Paul.
Hi All,
Paul, thanx, but, I got 2 types of errors,
The file /boot/grub/stage1 not read correctly,
and then this when attempting to reboot,
init: /dev/initctl: no such file or directory
Getting to be a laugh, eh...cheers.
Well, we could to and fro with bunch of diagnostics and try to figure out what's gone wrong and how to fix it, but since your FC3 install is "new", I'm tempted just to suggest reinstalling FC3 on /dev/hda5 and this time tell it to install grub on the root partition of your Fedora installation (i.e. /dev/hda5).
It should then "just work".
Paul.
Hi All,
ok, sounds like a tempting thing to me..lol..Paul, anything I should be wary of, with doing this.? Can't think of any off hand. Cheers.
Mark Sargent.
