On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 03:51:45PM -0500, Glenn Tober wrote: > I have an ASUS P5GDC mother board with SATA drives and the usual other > stuff. A while back I successfully installed WXP and FC3 and ran both using > a GRUB boot prompt without any problems whatsoever. Recently I got the FC4 > disk set and installed it without problems. Well, afterwards, there are few > drivers and such you need and in the process of getting these, and I think > doing something to grub.conf which I should not have, the whole system boot > went south. I could not recover it with the rescue disk. > > > > OK, so next I restored WXP using the fixmbr utility, and WXP is fine. I > have now reinstalled both FC3 and FC4 several times and grub does not > install properly in all cases. There is some screen activity in place of > the "grub stage1 loading' but there is no dual boot choice of any kind and > no evidence whatsoever that the stage1 boot routine is actually on the MBR > and trying to load. > > > > I have a root partition which I choose not to reformat, and a /usr partition > which I always reformat during each FC install. I am doing a plain vanilla > installation of a default workstation. I choose the grub boot loader option > the same way each time. If it is not clear, what worked fine one time > before for both FC3 and FC4 is now broke and I am stumped. Grub > documentation seems hard to find and what to do next? I have heard others > mention a GRUB restore option on the FC install menus and I cannot find such > a thing. I am reluctant to reformat the root partition because of my home > directory, but why should that matter anyway? HELP! Try this after correcting you grub.conf. Boot into rescue mode from CD 1 or the rescue disk. Your root linux partition will mount on /mnt/sysimage. Run: chroot /mnt/sysimage then the following commands: grub grub> root (hd0,0) <-- this depends on which disk and in which partition your root is. grup> setup (hd0) grub> quit That should fix your grub boot sector. -- ------------------------------------------- Aaron Konstam Computer Science Trinity University telephone: (210)-999-7484
