--- Jim Cornette <fc-cornette@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Antonio Olivares wrote: > > > > I popped in install cd and ran linux rescue to > restore grub file > > > using # chroot /mnt/sysimage but could not > remember how to restore > > > grub to boot original fedora installed on hard > drive. > > After chrooting into your detected internal hard > disk installation. > grub-install /dev/hda > might work. It worked excellent! Thanks! I could not remember this command. The usb hard drive overwrote the MBR and I could not boot unto fedora. But with grub-install it worked great. I can boot back previous configuration. > > > > > > Advice, suggestions, and comments are greatly > appreciated. > > > > > > Also please give advice to make USB hard drive > boot on its own to > > > run on different computers taking the system > wherever I go. I > > > messed up somewhere and would like to rectify. > > I have not successfully booted from usb with Fedora > as of yet. > Expanding all of the initrd image, including sfdisk, > recompressing the > initrd image and editing grub gave me a similar > error as you described. > running the attached script got me to /dev/console > before a kernel panic. I am trying to use grub interactively to see how to activate the drive and boot from it for the first time. I will work on it and ask questions as needed. Thanks to all for helping. Kind regards, Antonio > > Good luck! > > Jim > > I'm moving onto trying reiser4 and set aside the usb > bootable Linux > installation for now > > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > > > Antonio > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > Windows: Where do you WANT to go TODAY? You WANT to, > but you'll never > get there. And you can go to only ONE place per day. > > -- Ewout Stam > > > -- > 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
