----- Original Message ----- From: Timothy Murphy <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Saturday, December 30, 2006 9:29 pm Subject: Re: Can't boot after upgrade to FC6 To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > 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. > > Another possibility is that grub is not looking at the grub.conf file > you think it is. > Eg, if your /boot partition is not mounted > then maybe there is a /boot directory on your / partition. > > I would try "grub-install --recheck /dev/hdi" > if you can run Linux at all on this machine. > If you can't you could still give that command under knoppix, > or something like that. > # grub-install --recheck /dev/hdi Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. /dev/hdi does not have any corresponding BIOS drive. I think my computer setup is a little non-standard so a quick description is in order. Some time ago I went out and bought a new computer to replace my aging 600Mz Athlon. I had a 160GB IDE drive containing my Linux partition that I planned to transfer to the new computer but when i installed it, the BIOS would "see" it but not boot from it. After some investigation I found out that I cannot mix SATA drives with IDE drives on the motherboard (I wish I had known that before I bought the new computer). I had an old IDE controller lying around so I installed that, plugged in the IDE drive and I was in buisiness. The BIOS "sees" the IDE drive and I can change the boot order. I don't know how grub "looks" for drives but perhaps my setup is confusing it now (it used to work fine under FC5) or perhaps the BIOS is buggy. I am going to swap the boot order in the BIOS and see if that has any effect. Steve.
