Thanks for your info - I finally punched through - here's what mine needed to look like: title Fedora F16 root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-3.2.7-1.fc16.x86_64 ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_hostname-lv_root initrd /initramfs-3.2.7-1.fc16.x86_64.img where hostname is my host name. This is in fact the grub2 version (ported back to grub). Previously I had misread the first '_' as '-'. (no copy/paste in the little bash world I was struggling in) I notice that /dev/mapper/vg_hostname-lv_root is a symlink to ../dm-2 - I hope it's ok to mount /dev/dm-2 directly - I might not have a typo in a name that short, and I might even remember it! :-) Since I don't need anything fancy, can I simply keep grub and not fight through getting grub2 to install? I'm worried that my 200 MB /boot/ partition is not up to the task. It causes me trouble every single upgrade. (I know I need to do a fresh install with a new partition map - I promise eventually to get around to that.) Thanks for any advice, Julius On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Michael D. Setzer II <mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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? >> > >> > +----------------------------------------------------------+ >> > Michael D. 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