On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 21:41:14 +0100, M. wrote: > Oh boy, this is gonna be a tough one. :-) I had a look on my box as the root > and in my /boot directory there are no further subdirectories, or any files > named grub or grub.conf for that matter. I did install grub to the MBR, that > I remember now. I don't know where my grub.conf file has gone; Without the file, GRUB would refuse to boot. So, search differently. In GRUB menu, enter the GRUB command-line mode and use "find /boot/grub/grub.conf" and "find /grub/grub.conf". What do you get? > the file > finder simply doesn't find it. I did a bit of searching on the web regarding > this issue and one site mentioned an "update-grub" command which is to > recreate the grub config file. It's a real shame though Fedora doesn't have > that particular file. :-) > > So the bottom line here is, I have a system that boots, it has kernel 681 on > it (somewhere!), but I don't have the config file for grub. Perhaps there is > a grub command that recreates this the config file? (Do I first need to > create a folder called "grub" in "/boot"?). Since I did some reading on grub > reconfigs, etc. I would also very much like to create a bootable diskette > first -- any help on this would also be greatly appreciated. :-) > > And, oh BTW, this box is Linux only. After booting, what do you get for "rpm --query grub"? Are you sure you installed GRUB and not LILO? -- Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
