Hi Barry, splashimage wasn't an issue. Commenting out that line only brings a dark screen with option to select a kernel. grub-install /dev/sda worked ! I had installed grub to /dev/sda1, "grub-install /dev/sda1", thinking that grub gets installed on the boot partition, my case being /dev/sda1. Your thoughts? Thank you again! -masoom > 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 > -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
