thx craig, i will try that first ting in the am, this is the second time through, i thought it had crashed so i was watching the install and i didnt see any errors, but neither did it work correctly. i used the autodruid to partition, took what i though were the defaults, delete all partitions, not just the linux partitions, where do you suspect i went wrong? tia, jackc... On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 17:47 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 16:42 -0800, jackc wrote: > > hi gang, > > > > so i load the 4 fc 4 cd's and after loaded the it says it wants to do a > > graphical portion, reboots and i am looking a > > > > grub> > > > > prompt!! > > > > what the heck is supposed to happen now?! is this normal?! > > > ---- > no - not normal > > sounds as if you didn't allow grub to install the necessary stuff > into /dev/hda > > try this... > > boot disk 1 > skip media check > type 'linux rescue' and press enter at boot prompt > > when finished loading... > > type 'chroot /mnt/sysimage' > type 'grub-install -v /dev/hda' > > type 'exit' > type 'exit' > > see if it reboots > > note - don't include the single quotes - they were for your > identification only > > Craig > -- Jack Craig XPath/SAS Team Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. 1600 Technology Dr. San Jose, CA 95110 408.333.7478 Direct E-mail: jcraig@xxxxxxxxxxx
