Re: Grub boot problem ofter FC4 -> FC5 upgrade

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At 8:34 AM +0200 10/20/06, Marnix wrote:
>On 10/18/06, Marnix <Fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 ...
>> After an unsuccesfull FC4 -> FC5 upgrade I find myself in the
>> following situation:
 ...
>> # grub --no-floppy
 ...
>> Error 22: No such partition
>
>Thanks to Tony's tip I have got the system up again.

After seeing the other responses that suggest a problem with RAID, I am
amazed that my suggestion worked.


>Appearently the manual installation of grub as described above does
>not work, while the 'dumb' installation using "grub-install
>--no-floppy /dev/hda" works. I will have to look into grub-install to
>see what it does exactly and what the difference is with what I was
>doing manually.

I see that there is some RAID awareness in grub-install.  Possibly there is
still some residual RAID-ness on your system.  (Partition type?  I haven't
done RAID.)
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