>From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx >[mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Karl Larsen >Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 1:14 PM >To: For users of Fedora >Subject: Re: Grub clarification > > >Gordon Messmer wrote: >> Daniel B. Thurman wrote: >>> >>> Taking the defaults w/o any changes, I proceed and completed >>> the installation. >>> >>> On reboot, GRUB fails to find the drive. >> >> Before you rebooted, you should have been able to switch to >a shell to >> examine the installed system. If you can mount that drive, you >> should. Otherwise, get to the shell to check the contents of >> /boot/grub/device.map. What's in there? >> >> What's the full text of grub's error? >> > I would like to see both grub.conf and /etc/fstab and just be sure >show us # fdisk /dev/sda. These will tell us what's wrong. You >can look >too :-) > > grub.conf: # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Notice ... blah blah.. # NOTICE ... blah blah.. # blah blah.. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /vmliniz-version ro root=/dev/sda2 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/sda1 default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title fedora (2.6.23.1-42.fc8) root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /initrd--2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img /etc/fstab: LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults 1 1 LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 sysfs /sys sysfs defaults 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 LABEL=swap-sda3 swap ext3 defaults 1 2 fdisk -l /dev/sda: Disk /dev/sda: 15.3GB 15393079296 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1871 cylinders Units = Cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk Identifier: 0x0005b9df Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 10 80293+ 83 Linux /dev/sda2 11 1742 1391229 83 Linux /dev/sda3 1743 1871 1036102+ 83 Linux swap / Solaris No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.16.13/1165 - Release Date: 12/2/2007 8:34 PM
