On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:52:26 -0500, Chris Tyler wrote: [....] > This can happen when the BIOS's view of the drives (seen by grub while > booting) doesn't match the kernel's view (seen by grub when installing). > > Try booting the rescue disc and performing these steps: Finally got around to this today. It worked; many many thanks! I had to mess around a while in some places -- perhaps because I've only been running linux since RH7; I got two or three books with media for RH6, but could never manage to install it .... > (1) Run: grub --device-map=/tmp/drivemap > (2) Exit from grub. For us hoi polloi, you might want to mention using "quit" instead of "exit." > (3) Edit /tmp/drivemap to reverse the mapping of drives that are "seen" I chewed a while on that, too. Finally decided to start with switching the sda and hda locations -- luckily. > (4) Re-run: grub --device-map=/tmp/drivemap Chewed some more, before I realized I had to go through the chroot routine; I had never realized you could invoke grub as a command on a booted and running machine -- d'uhhh .... > (5) Re-install grub, i.e., > by following steps 2-5 from this article [0] (It doesn't hurt to install > the boot code on both drives in step 5 just in case, i.e., setup hd(0) > followed by setup hd(1) -- both will point to the partition you > identified with root(hdX,Y). The bios will usually boot from what it > sees as hd(0) but there are exceptions). The machine in need had only one hard drive; so I skipped the second half. > (It is possible to access this functionality through anaconda, too -- > there's a checkbox that lets you see "Extended GRUB options" or > something like that on the bootloader screen). How do you get into anaconda -- is there a way without a rescue disk? > Let us know how it goes-- > [0] http://dailypackage.fedorabook.com/index.php?/archives/158-.html Hadn't ever heard of dailypackage; many thanks! Heavy stuff, at least for subtechnoids, but very well written. Kudos & thanks to the author! -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Fedora 9 & 10; Alpine 2.00, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6; Dillo 0.8.6, Galeon 2, Epiphany 2, Opera 9, Firefox 3 Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
