Hey,
I popped in the installation CD and ran the Linux Rescue. Through
Shell I found boot/grub in mnt/sysimage/boot/grub
So I moved the boot folder into / and restarted and its still hanging!
Any ideas?
-Chris
On 8/12/05, Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Chris Kirk wrote:
> > Hey Guys,
> >
> > I just recently, well yesterday actually installed FC4 on my old PC. I
> > downloaded the iso files and burned them to a disk and did all the
> > checks and they all passed.
> >
> > I installed it as a Desktop and just did the default settings because
> > I am pretty new at this sort of stuff. I have an HP system that has
> > the auto-partitioned system with a D: recovery drive. When installing
> > FC4 I selected to do an automatic thing and just remove my Windows
> > drive so I believe it should have wiped that all out.
> >
> > It said it did the install successfully and it did the post
> > installation stuff and everything and then told me to take out the CD
> > and hit reboot. I did so and then it loaded a blakc screen with a
> > white text saying
> >
> > GRUB Loading stage2...
> > and a blinking _ on the next line.
> >
> > I turned off the PC and turned it back on only to have the same problem.
> >
> > If anyone has any suggestions at all please let me know as I am
> > totally lost to this!
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
>
> It looks like you have an incomplete GRUB install. You should
> have a directory on /boot/grub/ which contains stage2 and a
> grub.conf file.
>
> Reboot from any recovery CD and see whether you can find those files.
> If you can, then perhaps you are having a disc I/O problem. If you
> cannot, then you have an installation problem. Search around and
> see whether you have a directory somewhere on disc with those
> files. If you can find them, put a copy of everything in that
> directory into /boot/grub and try again.
>
> HTH
>
> Mike
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