On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 15:26 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Philippe wrote: > > > > Disclaimer: I do not claim to be a grub expert! > No problem ;-) > Your symptoms suggest to me that you installed Fedora on your new disk > (which you have now removed), > together with the files in /boot/grub/ required by grub . > > However, it may be more complicated than that ... > > Incidentally, if that was the situation you might have been able > to boot from the hard disk if you had told the BIOS > to change the boot disk order > (by entering the BIOS when you boot). > > Incidentally, if you now get the grub prompt > (even without the new disk) > it might be interesting to try giving grub commands, > starting by typing "c" (for command line). > > You might have a "conversation" along the following lines > > grub> root (hd0,1) > grub> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.16 root=/dev/hda5 > grub> initrd /initrd-2.6.16.img > grub> boot > > You'd have to change the linux versions, of course - > grub is quite good at looking for files, > eg completing the line if you say > > grub> kernel /vmlin<TAB> > Not sure what was the solution but I tried to make everything clean. Booting in rescue mode, I fsck all 3 drives (unmounted). Then, booting with only one disk. Then launch grub and install everything by hand. grub grub> root (hd0,0) grub> setup (hd0) grub> quit Then boot was OK. Then plug the 2 other disk and still OK now. Thanks a lot for your technical advices. Philippe -- Philippe, Chiangmai, Thailand May The Source Be With You -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
