What I put in my grub.conf file that worked is:
title Fedora16
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-3.2.7-1.fc16.i686
root=/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
initrd /initramfs-3.2.7-1.fc16.i686.img
On 26 Feb 2012 at 17:03, Julius Smith wrote:
Date sent: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 17:03:19 -0800
Subject: Re: Fedora 16 preupgrade with grub2 failure.
From: Julius Smith <jos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Community support for Fedora users
<users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> I just did a preupgrade from F15 to F16 and fell into this trap, or
> something similar.
>
> From a rescue disk boot (F12 is the latest I had lying around), I can
> see both grub and grub2 directories in /boot. The grub2 dir looks set
> up, but when booting grub/grub.conf is accessed, and it points to the
> preupgrade "kernel" which no longer exists. I tried setting
> grub/grub.conf so that at least the system would boot, but I can't
> figure out how to set the "root=" option. Using what's in grub2 does
> not work, nor does any of many things I've tried (it's /dev/sda2, and
> presumably VolGroup00-LogVol01, but nothing like that works). So, I'm
> dead in the water as well.
>
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 12:18 PM, Michael D. Setzer II
> <mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I've don't a number of upgrades from Fedora 14 to 16 with no
> > problems, but just had a very bad issue with grub2 not working.
> >
> > Preupgrade process seemed to go fine, then rebooted.
> > Screen came up, but was in a very dark gray with slightly lighter
> > gray letters that were not very readable, but it appeared to be
> > processing fine, and let it run.
> >
> > After a while, it had a popup window that said something about a
> > bootloader with only an OK button, which I was a guessing was that
> > it was going to install the new bootloader, so pressed enter.
> >
> > Machine rebooted but showed the old grub 0.97 options, which
> > only listed the upgrade kernel option and the link to run my g4l
> > kernels. The preupgrade option didn't find files, but booting from
> > the g4l kernel gave me access, and I could see a grub2 directory was
> > there and so was the new kernels. I was eventually able to get the
> > 0.97 grub.conf to load the fedora 16 kernel and initramfs by
> > manually creating entry, but don't know why the grub2 upgrade would
> > have failed, or what the best way to get the grub2 correctly
> > installed?
> >
> > I have the previous 500GB disk with the Fedora 14 before the
> > upgrade, so can go back to it if necessary. Had to duplicate the
> > disk to a 1TB drive and increase the /boot since the system only had
> > a 200MB /boot.
> >
> > Hoping there is a simple solution?
> >
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Guam Community College Computer Center
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mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx
http://www.guam.net/home/mikes
Guam - Where America's Day Begins
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