hung boot process

[Karl Larsen]

Bob Holtzman wrote:
> Please excuse the long post. I'm trying out Ubunt for the first time 
> and ...........
>
> After deleting the OEM installation of 7.10 because I don't like 1 big 
> partition. I reinstalled and set up /, /boot, /usr and /home. The 
> installation appeared to go well so I shut down the box, changed the bios 
> to boot from the hard drive and continued to boot the system. Everything came 
> to a stop during loading grub and displayed error 15.
>
> A search for error 15 yielded:
>
> 1. check rootline in grub.config --> locate *grub.config came up blank
> 2. reinstall grub w/ grub-install --> /boot initially was missing grub.
>    ran /sbin/grub-install and /boot/grub appeared but contained only
>    a device.map file
> 3. check /boot partition --> fsck -v /dev/sda6 showed it was clean 
> 4. check for /boot/grub/menu.list --> see no. 2 above.
>
> I tried deleting all partitions and reinstalling a couple of times with 
> the same result.
>
>   
    Well sorry but you need to know how to do this. I fail to see why 
you dislike one big system off of / but that is your business. But if 
you want to do things your way learn to do them.

1. Boot the root partition which should be /boot/grub/ and you need to 
mount that on the / partition. Same with /usr and /home. So it you 
didn't do that look at how I have /dev/hda7 attached automatically to /.

karl at karl-desktop:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# /dev/hda8
UUID=a9c1cb61-ddfd-44f6-88b0-6dc976daf9ca /               ext3    
defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /dev/hda1
UUID=7915f630-518c-425b-9fea-0ef07e50d0f9 none            swap    
sw              0       0
# /dev/sda2
UUID=7d8c37ed-b2ec-4008-a137-f24c6659c5ab none            swap    
sw              0       0
/dev/hdb        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0       0
/dev/hda7       /f7home          ext3     defaults       1    2
karl at karl-desktop:~$

    You will need to do all this using your cd-rom as a rescue device. 
You will need to write to /etc/fstab. If this sounds too hard then just 
use one big system under / and enjoy

Karl


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