Re: what is the grub step?!

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ok, thats it, even the manual install of grub fails.

thoughts for fc5, pls fix this!!!!

thx to all that provided support, jackc...

On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 19:08 -0600, Kenny Gow wrote:
> jackc wrote:
> > 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
> >>
> You probably did nothing wrong. It's happened to me before and
> I've seen numerous posts reporting this on fedoraforum. Apparently
> somehow grub does not get setup correctly even though the rest of
> the install went just fine.
> 
> The solution is to just reinstall grub as shown above or with
> the rescue CD. Even grub-install sometimes doesn't work just
> right, so if you are really careful, you can install grub with
> the root and setup commands, as shown here:
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Installing-GRUB-natively.html#Installing%20GRUB%20natively
> 
> --Kenny
> 
-- 
Jack Craig

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