Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. On 6/4/07, Timothy Murphy <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Why not try answering the grub prompt? Start with grub>root (hd0,1) and similar, and see which grub likes.
grub appears to prefer the default, whatever that is. Certain values it appears to accept, such as (hd1,1), but then none of the following steps work. In other words, if I don't given the "root" command, then the following works. FWIW: In the original menu.lst the 'root' command pointed to (hd4,0). But if I try to enter that on the cmd line, it says "disk not found". When I boot from the DVD, my OS partitions are displayed by fdisk on sdc, but they were originally on sdd. ;(
grub>kernel /vm<tab> should offer various completions; add grub>kernel /vmlinuz... root=LABEL=/
Ok, this works..
grub>initrd /init<tab>
This works too.
and finally grub>boot
This starts to work, I get a flurry of messages about things loading, but then something appears to go wrong, ie: mount: could not find file system '/dev/root' mount: could not find file system '/proc' mount: could not find file system '/sys' Switchroot: mount failed Booting has failed ...Kernel panic...
I suspect the fault lies in anaconda - they seem to me to have screwed up the grub configuration.
Yep, I had similar problems going from FC5 to FC6, but for some reason it was easier to solve that time around. Would doing a fresh install of F7 solve things? (My home partition is separate). TIA -- Colin Brace Amsterdam
