Chuck Sterling wrote:
Chuck Sterling wrote:
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Chuck Sterling wrote:
A month ago I tried to replace (not upgrade) fc3 with fc5 on my 1.7Ghz
P4 PC. It used grub to boot fc3 or WinXP Pro, and worked fine with fc3.
When I installed (not upgrade) fc5 I had it install grub. After, the
system would get to the point where it displayed "GRUB" and stopped.
Not
a prompt; the system was locked up and would not answer the keyboard.
Not really an answer to your problem,
but it seems to me there is a very strong argument
for having a separate /boot partition
which is left alone when you upgrade or install.
In your case I wonder if grub was confused about the disks?
I'd try running Knoppix or Fedora in Rescue mode
and say "grub-install --recheck /dev/hda" or whatever.
I did recall another detail but not the exact circumstances. In a
couple of installation tries of fc5 it was as though the boot sector
was untouched. The system would boot into WinXP without displaying any
kind of boot menu. Right now the successful fc3 installation is being
upgraded to fc4. We'll see... If it fails I will try the command
suggested above.
Chuck
Well, the fc4 upgrade worked. Starting on fc5. More news at ten...
Um, I did not get the note sent last night, and fc5 is Still Going,
though finally on disk 5... Very slow. Might be low on RAM at 256MB, and
it is a slow system 350Mhz PII, but still much slower than either fc3 or
fc4.
Chuck
And it did finally finish, grub operating normally. I'll test it some
over the next cupla days and let it do a yum update. Then we'll see...
Chuck
