On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 18:33 -0800, Daniel B. Thurman wrote: > >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 ---- just for S&G's try booting DVD or cd and going to rescue mode... once you get command line, chroot /mnt/sysimage grub-install /dev/sda exit exit and see if it boots Craig
