On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 10:58 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote: > On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 11:02:41AM -0400, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 10:50 -0400, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote: > > > Somewhere around 70% into the install process some file conflict results > > > and installation halts. > > > > I tried to upgrade to recover my batched install but now all I get is > > the "grub>" prompt. > > > > Can anyone help me get out of this mess? > > If you are really something like 70% done then most likely you do > have a bootable if an incomplete system (unless initrd for your > kernel was not written yet). Pretty good chance that you have > at least a workable text-mode console. The catch is that a grub > installation, which means a boot sector among other things, is > done close to the very end. I am completely hosed. The only prompt that I get is the "grub>" prompt. I can no longer boot from neither CDROM 1 nor the rescue CD. > > You can do two things. You can boot your system typing > boot commands directly at a grub prompt. Start with > root(<whatever>) root (hd0,1) > to point to that device where your kernel and initrd reside. > grub helps expanding possible choices. I don't know where this is?? If it is similar to FC5, I can look at my other system. > See 'info grub' for > more information. Once you booted then you can install > grub yourself. Check "Installing GRUB natively" section in > 'info grub'. Will do. > > Other option is to boot from your installation media in > a "rescue" mode, use that to get to your disk and install > grub on a disk from there. > > After that you may proceed with fixing your installation > manually. 'yum update' as the first step should at least > fill out all missing dependencies. > > Michal > -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list