Quoting Masoom Siddiqui <siddiqui.masoom@xxxxxxxxx>: > Hi, > > I recently had Redhat 7.2 physical machine converted into VMware guest with > P2V tool vmware converter. When I boot the vm guest it drops me into <grub> > shell. In the shell if I type "configfile /grub/grub.conf" I get Kernel to > choose from and it boots normally from there. > > Why does boot process drop into grub shell? > > I have separate /boot parition... > > df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda2 2.0G 1022M 914M 53% / > /dev/sda1 243M 13M 218M 6% /boot > none 503M 0 503M 0% /dev/shm > /dev/sda7 2.0G 65M 1.8G 4% /tmp > /dev/sda3 7.9G 929M 6.6G 13% /usr > /dev/sda5 4.0G 1.1G 2.6G 30% /usr/local > /dev/sda8 20G 7.1G 11G 38% /var > Below is my /boot/grub/grub.conf... > > cat /boot/grub/grub.conf > # 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 (hd0,0) > # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda2 > # initrd /initrd-version.img > #boot=/dev/sda > default=0 > timeout=10 > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz > title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-24.7) > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-24.7 ro root=/dev/sda2 > initrd /initrd-2.4.20-24.7.img You might try changing the splashimage line to remove the /boot from it .. since you have a /boot partition, you don't need it ... so it look more like the kernel and initrd lines. I don't know if grub would actually hang on that or not .. you could also comment the splashimage line out. Also .. you might try reinstalling grub ... grub-install /dev/sda .. or if that doesn't work .. the longer approach is: grub --batch --no-floppy --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map --config-file=/boot/grub/grub.conf Once at the grub prompt, run: grub> root (hd0,0) grub> setup (hd0) grub> quit HTH, Barry -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
