Thanks for your reply. My filesystems are ext3. I did the 'find' and then the 'configfile'. Now, I get "Error 17: Cannot mount select partition". I wonder if this has something to do with my 300GB drive which I put in as the master drive. Earlier I had a 80GB drive. The contents of the grub.conf are as follows: default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Fedora Core (2.6.5-1.358smp) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358smp ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358smp.img title Fedora Core-up (2.6.5-1.358) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img The filesystems are as follows: /dev/hdb2 / /dev/hdb1 /boot none /dev/shm /dev/hda2 /usr1 /dev/hdb3 /usr2 Thank you, Krish ----------------------------------------------- --- Scott Talbot <talbotscott@xxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
