-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 05 December 2004 12:21, Paul F. Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > > Without actually knowing what the problem is, the first move would > > be to boot off your first install CD and select the sort of > > "recovery mode" boot. > > Will try that > > > The boot filesystem must be accessible to grub otherwise it cannot > > show you the stuff from /boot/grub/grub.conf. I would boot into the > > recovery install kernel and look carefully at my > > /boot/grub/grub.conf to see if it is giving the correct partition to > > boot from. > > I'm starting to wonder if there has been something in the latest rawhide. I am tracking rawhide on this machine, have been since before FC1. It's possible I missed some poison pill since it does not update every day. There was an ugly kernel a month or two back that trashed filesystems: I was lucky and an fsck under a later kernel repaired it for me. > The system was installed with FC 2.91 (IIRC, FC3t2) and has been kept up to > date with rawhide since then. It isn't formatted to be using > VolGroup00/LogVol00, but to be using the more conventional /dev/hdax. > > It's either that or when I asked someone else to install the kernel, they > used rpm -Uv and ignored the postun (etc) errors... Now that will have > screwed things up! I installed the kernel you posted about and I did not get any errors on install, plus I am running it right now just fine. What I DID get was for some reason /boot was not mounted at that time, the kernel files were instead copied into the mountpoint itself (ie, the /boot in the root filesystem that should be an empty mountpoint "covered over" by the actual mounted /boot filesystem). I had to mount the boot filesystem elsewhere and copy over the files from /boot into it, adjust /boot/grub/grub./conf and then reboot and it worked fine. I think this was to do with recent initscripts troubles at the time I installed the new kernel. > I doubt the MBR is shafted as the machine is booting to grub, though I have > noticed that /dev/hda1 does have a very old version of the system files in > it, which makes me wonder if something is getting a wee bit confused. What system files? - -Andy - -- http://www.addintelligence.co.uk -- we design custom hardware and software for your products -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBswM6jKeDCxMJCTIRAjYrAKCKIbKK63qvfp4fsRl9jYnwCsMxwQCePg7F ZqTzjPbbWcLuY9VYzocfalQ= =Q1dK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----