On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 15:56 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 18:46 -0400, Ted Gervais wrote: > > I am having trouble booting up core6. I installed it earlier today and > > after trying to find a way to get Grub to work I formatted the drive and > > started over. > > > > Now I am back at the same prompt with no core6 running. Grub does not > > appear and the result is - Windows comes up rather than linux. > > > > I am totally lost now. There is no sign at all that there is even Linux > > installed on this computer, and yet I just took off centos which was > > working fine and it used grub as its windows manager. > > > > I have two harddrives (hda and hdb). > > HDA is for Windows and HDB for Linux. > > > > That is how it was with centos and previous versions of linux such as > > core5. It always worked fine. > > Now I get nothing when I reboot the machine other than windows.. > > > > What am I overlooking? And is there a way that I can bring up this > > installed version of Fedora (core6) using the rescue disk? If this is > > possible what would be the boot line to get things running? > ---- > try booting the FC-6 Installation Disc 1 or the rescue CD and typing at > boot prompt... > > linux rescue Did that.. > > after it boots, it provides a message and offers to 'mount' any FC-6 > installations it finds (good idea) Not really, but it will if you know what to type in... I don't.. > > You can confirm the installation by typing at command line... > > fdisk -l /dev/hdb Right on. Did that, been there. > > it should list at least 2 partitions on hdb... > > approximately 100 mb /boot partition > balance of partition in one big LVM partition > > If you can locate those, you could try... > > chroot /mnt/sysimage > grub-install -v /dev/hda I did the grub- install /dev/hda, .../dev/hdb1, .../dev/hda1, .../dev/hdb... ...and while it looked like it was working, it didn't. A reboot proved that for sure. There is just something different about this core6. I don't know what it is other than it can't install grub. Since I wrote this query to the list I took off core6 and install CENTOS. It went on beautifully together with GRUB. No problem at all. So, what in the world is wrong with CORE6?? > > which should install the grub boot loader onto the boot blocks of the > Windows drive. > > then 'exit' and 'exit' should cause it to reboot and bring up grub > bootloader > > Craig >
