V Krish wrote:
I had Fedora Core 2 on my machine. When one of the
internal disk drives failed, I put in a new 300GB
drive as the master drive. I also re-installed Fedora
Core 2 from scratch on this drive. The boot process
now stops at the grub prompt. If I try 'boot', the
message is "kernel not loaded" or something similar.
What may cause this?
Thank you
Krish
The good news is that grub is installed fine, however for some
reason it cannot find /grub/grub.conf. One possibility is that your
/boot is a Reiserfs partition (for some reason Grub doesn't like that
too well).
If you have /boot in a ext2 or ext3 (ext2 is better imo, I don't
recall if it is discouraged). Anyway try this.
GRUB>find /grub/grub.conf
This will likely return the name of the partition that has grub.conf
on it. If it should fail to find grub, You'll need to boot into CD 1.
At the prompt enter linux rescue. Follow directions till you get to the
part where it tells you to enter chroot /mnt/sysimage, then to
grub-install /dev/hda (assuming that your Bios is set to boot the
primary master hard drive). after that type exit <enter> and reboot your
computer to see if it works.
Another possibility that I've seen is that you might have 2 /boot
directories (this confuses linux!) or if you left the /boot entry from
your FC3 and are now using the same partition as root (actually I never
saw this, and I'm not sure this could cause a problem. I currently have
/boot for FC4 and a boot within a Rawhide distro with no problems. You
could try findfs LABEL=/boot to see if you have a partition.
if the find command returned for example (hd0,0) you could type:
GRUB>configfile(hd0,0)/grub/grub.conf
which should load the config file and allow you to boot Fedora
HTH
Scott
