Hi Gregorio,
I had the same problem, see my post "grub doesn't install". I eventually
found the problem seemed to be associated with LVM. I had to reinstall
FC4 (for about the fifth time...) and when it asked me about
partitioning the drive, I chose manual, then deleted everything to do
with LVM and partitioned using "normal" partitions. The install finished
correctly, grub installed and worked, and I've never looked back.
I'm interested to hear how you go with Agnula. I would also like to have
a play with it, but the doc only mentions FC1, so not sure if it is
compatible with FC4.
Cheers, Ian
Gregorio Canelos wrote:
Jim Cornette wrote:
Gregorio Canelos wrote:
Hello Everyone,
I'm new to fedora core 4 and this list. I got my hands dirty
pretty fast, and now I can't get the dirt off......
That is, I somehow ended up in the GRUB command-line after
rebooting, after an uninstall of rehmudi packages. I don't know
GRUB and can't really follow the GRUB how-to's. . . What's the
command to boot up with the linux partition?
Thanks,
Gregorio
If you boot from the rescue disc, it should find your installation.
If it finds your Fedora installation, it should mount your
installation as /mnt/sysimage and if you have a seperate /boot
partition, it will be mounted as /mnt/sysimage/boot.
You will be directed by a prompt to run the chroot program with the
directory argument as /mnt/sysimage. This will change your directory
path to / for /mnt/sysimage and the //mnt/sysimage/boot partition
will be /boot.
Anyway, you should have the environment of your Fedora installation
and can run commands to recover/ reinstall grub to a working stage.
If you have ATA drives, running the below command should reinstall
grub and get you to where you can boot your system and grub is
installed correctly.
grub-install /dev/hda
This installs grub to your Master Boot Record where grub is usually
installed.
If I misunderstood your problem, please post more details related to
your failure. (Hard drive type, steps taken to install Fedora and how
you attempted to uninstall the other programs.)
Jim
I had forgotten that a rescue disc existed, so that never came into my
mind. I'm currently in the middle of reinstalling the entire OS, and
I chose the option to overwrite the existing linux partition.
although time-consuming, this should work right?
About the unintall thing,...I had tried to install the Agnula/Rehmudi
packages on top of Fedora Core 4 in order to get some special ALSA and
JACK capabilties. I thought Rehmudi would be good, because I know
nothing about scripts or configuring sound card stuff, I so
thought---have Rehmudi do it.
I logged in as root, mounted the cd, and went to the cd folder in the
command-line. I ran the installer, and the window was fine, but
during the installation, there all kinds of errors concerning
depencies, so the installation was half-succesful. Then, I decided to
uninstall Rehmudi, which seemed to work. Upon rebooting, I was placed
in the command-line boot-loader.
Is this normal behavior when un-installing software packages?
Also, I don't know if Rehmudi is recommended or not.
Thanks!!!!
Gregorio
