On 8/14/05, T. Horsnell <tsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >On 8/13/05, Mostafa Z. Afgani <mostafa.afgani@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Chris Kirk wrote: > >> > >> > I did what you said and now when I turn on the PC it says > >> > GRUB Loading stage2... > >> > > >> > I ran the cmd > >> > install (hd0,0)/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0,0)/grub/stage2 p (hd0,0)/grub/grub.conf > >> > > >> > I then checked the grub.conf file to make sure it is all correct, and > >> > then rebooted and it still hangs on the GRUB Loading stage2... > >> > > >> > Any ideas? > >> > >> I believe I came across a problem similar to yours a while back. It was > >> a problem with SuSE - it refused to boot from the HDD but booted fine > >> with the Boot CD. Eventually, it turned out that the boot partition was > >> not marked as active. So you might want to look into that. Try (as root) > >> > >> #fdisk -l > >> > >> and see if the Boot column has a '*' for /dev/hda1. If not, you can run > >> > >> #fdisk /dev/hda > >> > >> and then type 'a' at the fdisk prompt to toggle the bootable flag. Once > >> done, you need to save the changes to the partition table and exit. Type > >> 'm' at the fdisk prompt for help. > > > >After I did the install cmd that you talked about a few lines messages > >ago I never ran the setup (hd0,0) cmd so I decided to try it... > > > >Heres what I got: > > > >grub> setup (hd0,0) > > Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no > > Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes > > Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes > > Checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes > > Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,0)"... failed (this is not fatal) > > Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,0)"... failed (this is not fatal) > > Running "install /grub/stage1 (hd0,0) /grub/stage2 p /grub/grub.conf "... succ > >eeded > >Done. > > > >I am not sure if the failed stuff has anything to do with why its not > >booting up but maybe it does, just an idea... I don't really know this > >stuff too well as you can see... > > > > Can I join in here? > I think the problem is that you are trying to get grub to write > boot stuff onto a disk that isnt the disk from which you are > currently booted. The only way I've ever managed to do this is > by using a device map. > > Assuming that the disk you want to make bootable is /dev/hda, > make a device map file containing the line: > > (hd0) /dev/hda > > This file will have to be on a mounted filesystem which can be > accessed from your rescue kernel, so this may present problems, > but you could create it on a ramdisk perhaps. > > Then start grub and tell it to use that device map: > > #grub --device-map=pathToYourDeviceMap > > Then within grub: > > grub> root (hd0,0) > grub> setup (hd0) > grub> quit Hey, Thanks for trying but I already have the device map setup... -Chris > > Good luck, > Cheers, > Terry. > > > >Thanks so much for your help so far! > > > >-Chris > > > >> > >> HTH > >> -M > >> > >> > >> > > >> > -Chris > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> fedora-list mailing list > >> fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >> To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > >> > > > >-- > >fedora-list mailing list > >fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > >To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list >
