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
You have no way to boot your windows. That needs to be added to
grub.conf.
/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
The above should not be Id 83. It should be proper for windows and
the System should be Windows.
/dev/sda2 11 1742 1391229 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 1743 1871 1036102+ 83 Linux swap
The above should be Id 82 for the swap.
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Above is what I see wrong. Looks like no swap defined and windows is
all messed up.
Karl
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