Re: Linux fedora core 4 ... GRUB loading stage2... booting message

From: Lenard (lenard_at_127.0.0.1)
Date: 11/17/05 

Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 03:07:28 GMT

someone92@hotmail.com wrote:

> Ok, thanks for the help. I found the solution and if it can be useful
> to somebody, here's what it was. But I still don't understand why it
> was working fine for months and then stopped working for no reasons.
>
> Before installing fedora core 4, redhat 9.0 was installed instead and I
> was using the win2k boot loader to boot redhat. I made a copy of the
> redhat 9.0 boot sector using :
> dd if=/dev/hdb6 of=bootsect.lnx bs=446 count=1

Was this a clean install (wipe and load) or did you do an upgrade??

> When I installed fedora, I didn't change the bootsect.lnk file on
> win2k's boot loader since everything was working without problems. I
> know it's stupid I should have made another copy of the boot sector,
> but it was working ... so ...
>
> Anyway I just made another copy of the current (fedora) sector and
> replaced the bootsect.lnx file and everything came back to normal. I
> still don't understand why it was working before.

Glad to hear your system is booting correctly again. In the future please
keep the bootsect.lnx file updated. Make a new one whenever you install a
new kernel and remove the kernel that you used to when you created the
bootsect.lnx file

>
> Thanks again for the help
> 

-- 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
 safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."     -- B. Franklin, 1759

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