I've tried the fedora-list without success so please bear with me while I discribe my plight:
I've got an older VALinux machine and I can not boot from CD.
So I mounted disc1, copied vmlinuz and initrd.img to /boot, unmounted disc1, added entry to /etc/grub.conf, then rebooted:
mount /dev/cdrom cp -a /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/vmlinuz /boot/FC2-install cp -a /mnt/cdrom/isolinux/initrd.img /boot/FC2-install.img umount /mnt/cdrom and add entry like: title Fedora Core 2 Installation root (hd0,0) kernel /FC2-install initrd /FC2-install.img to /etc/grub.conf (use /boot/FC2... when not relative to /boot)
Everything was going along fine; I did an upgrade (not install) and after 1 1/2 hours it said that the installation was a success and that
I should click the reboot button ... which I did.
Well, reboot started out ok, there was a single boot option on the grub boot page, but then it asked me to insert disc1. I did so and it then asked me if I wanted to upgrade or install.
hmmm.....
I selected upgrade and it proceeded to "upgrade" a php rpm from disc1 and compat-db rpm from disc3 and announced that the installation was successful and that I should click on the reboot button.
Ok, reboot started and then once again it requested that I insert disc1 and once again it installed the same two rpm's, php from disc1 and compat-db from disc3 and announced that the installation was a success.
I tried one more time with the same result.
At this point (with advise from the fedora-list) at the grub gui I entered the command mode and looked at what was in the /boot directory. Well, vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 is there (the only vmlinuz file) but initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img is not there (neither is memtest86+-1.11), though there are some initrd-2.4.* files still.
I wanted to try the following from grub:
root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.5-1.358 ro root=LABEL=/ initrd /initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img boot
but since initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img is not there I can not.
So, what can I do? None of the grub network commands, e.g., ifconfig, seem to be available. How do I get a copy of initrd-2.6.5-1.358.img onto the disk?
Thanks
Richard
