On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 14:23 +0000, Kahn Seidl wrote:
> /dev/hda1 1 1912 15358108+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2 1913 1925 104422+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda3 * 1926 3850 15462562+ 83 Linux
> /dev/hda4 3851 7296 27679995 5 Extended
> /dev/hda5 3851 7296 27679963+ 8e Linux LVM
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> please note this is from a freshly installed fc4, not fc3. I would like to
> retrieve my fc3 back.
>
> martin
OK, taking a guess from this as to which partition is which, I am
assuming that /dev/hda1 is your Windows C: partition, that /dev/hda2 is
your /boot partition and that /dev/hda3 is your / partition. /dev/hda5
is most likely your /home or something partition??
So, now, your grub.conf should have something like this:
title Fedora Core (2.6.12-1.1372_FC3)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3 ro root=/dev/hda3 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3.img
As explained in another email, the root line refers to the, usually,
separate /boot partition and starts counting from 0, so /dev/hda2 is
equivalent to (hd0,1)....
Then on the kernel line you can either use labels or actual device
names, I prefer to use device names, so we simply directly specify
the /dev/hda3 there. Of course, I am assuming that /dev/hda3 is in fact
your "/" partition.
I suppose the other possibility is that the "/" partition is inside the
LVM on /dev/hda5, but then we would need to specify the "LVM" device
name, not the raw /dev/hda5 name....
You said you were receiving a kernel panic. Can you post the grub.conf
line that at least gets you to a kernel panic and then a rough
transcription of the errors just before the panic?
--Rob
