At 12:10 PM +0200 10/18/06, Marnix wrote: >Hi, > >After an unsuccesfull FC4 -> FC5 upgrade I find myself in the >following situation: > >My server has two IDE disks hda and hdc. When it boots I see "GRUB" >alone on the screen and then it stops. I think that means that grub is >not able to find stage1_5 or stage2 loader. Grub used to be installed >(FC4) on a seperate /boot partition which was a metadevice md3 >mirrored on two devices: hda1 and hdc1. When I boot from rescue CD and >I and try to reïnstall grub on hda I get an error message: > ># grub --no-floppy >grub> find /grub/stage1 > (hd0,0) > (hd1,0) > >grub> root (hd0,0) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0xfd > >grub> setup (hd0) > Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no > Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes > Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes > Checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5"" exists... yes > Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 15 sectors are embedded. >succeeded > Runing "install /grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+15 p (hd0,0)/grub/stage2 >/grub/grub.conf"... failed > >Error 22: No such partition > >I tried swapping the 2 disks, turning hda into hdc and vice versa, but >then the word "GRUB" does not even appear on the screen, so probably >hdc does not have an MBR at all. > >I want to be very carefull with hdc because I know it still contains >all filesystems with all data, because these are mounted as >metadevices under /mnt/sysimage when running from rescue CD. > >What should I do next? AIUI, you are booting hda directly, with no separate boot partition. Try the automatic method: boot the Rescue CD, chroot /mnt/sysimage, grub-install /dev/hda. I don't see any mistakes in what you used, but perhaps this will work. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' The Great Writ <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' is no more. <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
