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 XPath/SAS Team Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. 1600 Technology Dr. San Jose, CA 95110 408.333.7478 Direct E-mail: jcraig@xxxxxxxxxxx
