----- Original Message ----- From: Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Saturday, December 30, 2006 5:46 pm Subject: Re: Can't boot after upgrade to FC6 To: For users of Fedora <fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx> > On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 10:53 -0500, zephod@xxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > ---- Original Message ----- > > From: Timothy Murphy <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > I would try running grub interactively; > > > type "c" when the grub prompt appears, > > > and then "root = (hd0,0)" or "root = (hd1,0)", > > > and see what grub reports. > > > > That's just it - the grub prompt never appears nor does anything > else > > but a blank screen before a reboot. The way I got into grub > > interactivly was to enter rescue mode by using the installation > DVD > > and then type grub at the shell prompt. > > > > # grub > > grub> root (hd0,0) > > Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x7 > > > > Is it possible that grub got installed in the wrong place? How > can I > > find out where grub is installed? > > > > Thanks, > > Steve > > > In means to me that your hd0 disk partition 1 is either not there > or not > formatted. > Try fdisk /de/hda and see what it tells you. # fdisk -l /dev/hdi Disk /dev/hdi: 160.0GB, 160041885696 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Units = cyclindes of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdi1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux /dev/hdi2 14 19457 156183930 8e Linux LVM Looks like partition 1 is there and formatted to me. Could it be too small? Steve
