boot problems after installing fedora 11

Tom H tomh0665 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 4 10:23:19 UTC 2009


>>> i installed grub2 and nothing happened. i dont really know how to do
>>> chainloading but ill try.

>> Haneef, if you want an empty grub2 bootable cd, I can send you an iso
>> file for you to burn and try to boot to 9.10. The file is just about 1
>> MB size.
>> Let me know if you want it.

> Gee, there are easier ways to get it.
> (i really should pause longer before hitting the send button)

> boot up  9.10 livecd. at terminal,
> sudo grub-mkrescue grub2.iso

> burn that 'grub2.iso' generated in your home partition.

> Boot that up, then do
> search -f /boot/grub/grub.cfg

> check what is your partition of 9.10
> (you did not say in earlier message where your 9.10 is, Tom said it is
> sda5, is it?)

> Assuming it is (hd0,5)   -change if wrong-

> do either one of 2 things

> -one-
> configfile (hd0,5)/boot/grub/grub.cfg

> -two-
> set root=(hd0,5)
> linux   /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=/dev/sda5 ro quiet splash
> initrd  /boot/initrd.img-2.6.31-14-generic
> boot

> When booted into 9.10, at terminal
> sudo grub-mkconfig

> check if this includes F11 as well.
> If okay,
> sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

> sudo grub-install /dev/sda

I just logged on to my mail in order to ask you for the output of two
rpm commands (to make sure that Grub 2 is properly installed).

But Goh Lip has given you excellent instructions to re-set up Grub 2
in KK, so there is no longer any need for checking and correcting your
F11 Grub 2 install.




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