Re: linux rescue

akonstam_at_trinity.edu
Date: 05/24/05

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    Date: Tue, 24 May 2005 16:15:05 -0500
    To: Kai Zhang <cmskzhan@gmail.com>, For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
    
    

    On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 05:38:07PM +0100, Kai Zhang wrote:
    > Hi
    > i'm installing the FC3 on my PC (PIII 500 384M two harddisks). Primary
    > one is xp 8G, secondary slave is FC3 10G with 800M swap.
    > Installation seems successful.
    > FC3 boot up the first time, PC restarts itself when showing GRUB loading stage2.
    > I did memtest86. Memories look fine. Linux rescue, showes all Hard
    > disks are there. FC can be mounted on /mnt/sysimages.
    > The only problem I can think of is that FC3 is not installed on a
    > primary partition.
    > Could this be the reason of the problem? Any solutions?
    This is a well known problem. Use the rescue disk so you can chroot to your root
    partition. Then install grub by the following steps:
    grub
    grub> root (hd0,0)
    grub> setup (hd0)
    grub> quit

    Change arguments from (hd0,0) is you root partition in not /dev/hda1. I assume the
    error you are talking about is that grub says it can't find stage2.

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