On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 11:20 -0700, Chris Kirk wrote:
> 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?
>
You *moved* boot from /mnt/sysimage to / when in rescue mode????
It is not likely you even have the kernel images or grub.conf files
available now on the installation if I understood that correctly.
When booted to rescue mode / is initially in the ramdisk. There is a
note that comes up when it first boots that tells you about chrooting
to /mnt/sysimage for access to the installed OS.
If you did not do that, then you moved the boot image to ramdisk and
when you rebooted it is likely gone from the hard disk.
> -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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