Well, I screwed up royally again.
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012, stan wrote:
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:04:47 -0500 (CDT)
Michael Hennebry <hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012, stan wrote:
> There is something wrong with your install.
>
> You can try rebuilding your rpm database as root.
> rpm --rebuilddb
> This will take a while, depending on your package count.
That did it. I can use yum now.
Excellent, sounds like you are in business.
Of course that does not explain what happened in the first place.
The database wasn't written properly because of hard drive or power
problems? Faulty power supply levels can do really flaky things to a
computer.
I really hope not.
That would mean that fixing it would require cracking the case.
The last time I did it, I zapped my video card.
Even if everything went perfectly this time, I wouldn't know that.
I didn't know enough to trust the install, so I tried again, twice.
The last time, I apparently told anaconda something bad about booting.
Now, if I boot from disk sda, all I get is the grub command line.
I can use the configfile to boot from that, but I would rather not.
I've tried to use super-grub to fix it, but to know avail.
Where is the magic spell to boot using sda2 as /boot ?
I've been RTFM, but I've not been able to find it.
super-grub didn't help.
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 63 28676024 14337981 c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda2 * 28676025 28871576 97776 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 28871577 45668888 8398656 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 45668889 78165359 16248235+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 45668952 49574888 1952968+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 49574952 62856296 6640672+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 62856360 78165359 7654500 83 Linux
Here is /grub/grub.conf from /dev/sda2 :
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd1,1)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sdb3
# initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img
#boot=/dev/sdb2
default=0
timeout=0
splashimage=(hd1,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686)
root (hd1,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686 ro root=UUID=f38145b3-1424-4162-8c93-2640827ba4b5 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
initrd /initramfs-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686.img
Note the 14's.
Despite trying to install F15, I seem to have gotten F14.
sda is the hard disk listed first in the BIOS.
Also, I clilcked on at least three desktop environments.
gnome is the only one that seems to be installed.
--
Michael hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
"On Monday, I'm gonna have to tell my kindergarten class,
whom I teach not to run with scissors,
that my fiance ran me through with a broadsword." -- Lily
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