On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > clarice oshea wrote: >> had to reinstall my microsoft OS on a dual boot system >> >> MS OS on scsi drive 0 >> Fedora 9 on scsi drive 1 >> >> I did the usual procedure to reinstall grub >> >> rescue disk >> chroot /mnt/sysimage >> . . . . >> >> grub> find /grub/grub.conf >> (hd1,0) looked suspicious >> > This would be the second drive, first partition. That sounds correct > for your setup. > >> grub>root (hd1,0) >> >> grub>setup (hd1) >> >> no errors but something was put on hd1 I'll bet >> >> did this 2-3 times and no dual boot >> >> then I did >> >> grub>setup (hd0) and that worked >> > You finely put the Grub boot loader in the MBR of the boot drive. > Remember, you boot from hd0, not hd1. > >> I have the dual boot working but in the startup messages >> >> mounting local file systems FAILED (in red) >> >> everything works OK though >> >> >> Is there a way to repair the damage? >> >> A second reboot showed the same error on boot >> > Check your /etc/fstab, and compare it to the output of the mount > command to see what filesystem did not get mounted. Without knowing > what filesystem is giving you trouble, we can not help you fix it. > > Mikkel > -- > > Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, > for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup! > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines > I just loaded fedora 9 last month and am learning pretty fast. /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> 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 #Entry for /dev/sdb1 : UUID=d22bdaa7-ca74-4bbf-8233-21d0b8e5d227 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 #Entry for /dev/sda1 : UUID=DC70F0AD70F0900E /media/sda1 ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap swap defaults 0 0 I'll have to study up on all this to find out what it means as I said fedora 9 is running well as far as I can tell -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
