How to recover Fedora Core 5?

[Vinicius]

Hello,

I have installed a Windows XP on another partition than my FC5. The system boot
on Windows. I'm unable to do a dual-boot FC5 and XP.
The steps followed are below:

1. Boot from DVD, then on the prompt: linux rescue;
2. from the rescue mode prompt: chroot /mnt/sysimage;
3. then: /sbin/grub-install /dev/hda.

So, occurs an error about stage1 incomplete or something like that.

Any ideas, please?

TIA,
Vinicius.

[Leo]

On Thu, 28/09/06 04:31 +0100, Vinicius wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have installed a Windows XP on another partition than my FC5. The system boot
> on Windows. I'm unable to do a dual-boot FC5 and XP.
> The steps followed are below:
> Boot from DVD, then on the prompt: linux rescue;
> from the rescue mode prompt: chroot /mnt/sysimage;
> then: /sbin/grub-install /dev/hda.
>
> So, occurs an error about stage1 incomplete or something like that.
>
> Any ideas, please?
>
> TIA,
> Vinicius.

Could you list your partitions?

1. fdisk /dev/hda
 2. 'p' to print partition table
 3. 'q' to exit fdisk

Attach the output in step 2 to the list. People might be able to help.

[Aaron Konstam]

On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 03:31 +0000, Vinicius wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have installed a Windows XP on another partition than my FC5. The system boot
> on Windows. I'm unable to do a dual-boot FC5 and XP.
> The steps followed are below:
> Boot from DVD, then on the prompt: linux rescue;
> from the rescue mode prompt: chroot /mnt/sysimage;
> then: /sbin/grub-install /dev/hda.
>
> So, occurs an error about stage1 incomplete or something like that.
>
> Any ideas, please?
>
> TIA,
> Vinicius.

You might try this instead of the grub-install. Let us assume that your
linux is on partition 2.
grub
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> root (hd0,1)
grub> quit

then reboot

The 1 in the root command refers to partition 2 since grub numbers
partitions starting at 0.

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[Vinicius]

Hello,

My original grub.conf uses hd0,5 as device and /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 as root.

The grub command "setup (hd0)" doesn't work.

When I run "/sbin/grub-install hd0,5" or "/sbin/grub-install
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00", the return is "The file /boot/grub/stage1 not
read correctly". And the floppy disk led turns on and I hear the head moving.

Thanks for your time,
Vinicius.

[Vinicius]

Hello,

Please, see the follow-up to Aaron.

I was thinking turning grub back should be easy. I was wrong.

Thanks for your time,
Vinicius.

[Phil Meyer]

Vinicius wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My original grub.conf uses hd0,5 as device and /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 as root.
>
> The grub command "setup (hd0)" doesn't work.
>
> When I run "/sbin/grub-install hd0,5" or "/sbin/grub-install
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00", the return is "The file /boot/grub/stage1 not
> read correctly". And the floppy disk led turns on and I hear the head moving.
>
> Thanks for your time,
> Vinicius.

This may be one of those tricky ones.
Sometimes it goes like this:
Insert the CDROM or DVD
boot: linux rescue
error mounting ... (or whatever)
root shell
if it won't mount things properly, then ...

# mkdir /mnt
# mount <root-device> /mnt
# cp -a /dev/* /mnt/dev
# chroot /mnt

I hate having to type in full path names :)
Source the common profile

# . /etc/profile

That is: dot space /etc/profile

# mount </boot-device> /boot
# df -h

to insure that both / and /boot partitions appear to mount -- 
grub-install needs this

# grub-install --nofloppy --recheck <root-device>

That should fix ya up.

# exit
#exit

Will cause a reboot -- remove the disk!

[Vinicius]

Leo <sdl.web <at> gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, 28/09/06 04:31 +0100, Vinicius wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have installed a Windows XP on another partition than my FC5.
> > The system boot
> > on Windows. I'm unable to do a dual-boot FC5 and XP.
> > The steps followed are below:
> > Boot from DVD, then on the prompt: linux rescue;
> > from the rescue mode prompt: chroot /mnt/sysimage;
> > then: /sbin/grub-install /dev/hda.
> >
> > So, occurs an error about stage1 incomplete or something like that.
> >
> > Any ideas, please?
> >
> > TIA,
> > Vinicius.
>
> Could you list your partitions?
> fdisk /dev/hda
> 'p' to print partition table
> 'q' to exit fdisk
>
> Attach the output in step 2 to the list. People might be able to help.

Hello,

# fdisk -l
omitting empty partition (5)

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1         688     5526328+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2             689        2295    12908227+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda3            2296        4865    20643525    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda4            4592        4865     2200873+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hda5            2296        2308      104359+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6            2309        4591    18338166   8e  Linux LVM

TIA,
Vinicius.

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Vinicius wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My original grub.conf uses hd0,5 as device and /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 
> as root.
>
> The grub command "setup (hd0)" doesn't work.
>
> When I run "/sbin/grub-install hd0,5" or "/sbin/grub-install
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00", the return is "The file /boot/grub/stage1 not
> read correctly". And the floppy disk led turns on and I hear the head moving.

I haven't seen the earlier part of this thread, so maybe I've missed 
something, but hd0,5 looks like a logical partition inside the extended 
partition and /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 is an LVM logical volume.  I'm 
pretty sure that grub needs to live in the MBR or the boot record of a 
primary partition.  I've been told that recent grubs can have /boot be a 
logical partition, but have not verified that.  grub cannot live in or 
boot from an LVM volume.  The root file system (not /boot) can be a 
logical volume.

I have /boot as a small primary partition (/dev/hda3 or (hd0,2)).  Grub 
itself is installed in the boot record of that partition, which I made the 
active boot partition using fdisk.  My / filesystem is in 
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00.  Thus the grub stanza reads

title Fedora Core (2.6.17-1.2187_FC5)
         root (hd0,2)
         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
         initrd /initrd-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5.img

I haven't had to do it by hand, but I think that would be

grub-install /dev/hda3

or

grub-install (hd0,2)

with no options.  There's a comment in grub.conf to the effect that, 
because I have a /boot partition, all paths are relative to /boot.
> Thanks for your time,
> Vinicius.

[Vinicius]

Vinicius <cviniciusm <at> uol.com.br> writes:
> Leo <sdl.web <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > On Thu, 28/09/06 04:31 +0100, Vinicius wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I have installed a Windows XP on another partition than my FC5.
> > > The system boot
> > > on Windows. I'm unable to do a dual-boot FC5 and XP.
> > > The steps followed are below:
> > > Boot from DVD, then on the prompt: linux rescue;
> > > from the rescue mode prompt: chroot /mnt/sysimage;
> > > then: /sbin/grub-install /dev/hda.
> > >
> > > So, occurs an error about stage1 incomplete or something like that.
> > >
> > > Any ideas, please?
> > >
> > > TIA,
> > > Vinicius.
> >
> > Could you list your partitions?
> > fdisk /dev/hda
> > 'p' to print partition table
> > 'q' to exit fdisk
> >
> > Attach the output in step 2 to the list. People might be able to help.
>
> Hello,
>
> # fdisk -l
> omitting empty partition (5)
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *           1         688     5526328+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2             689        2295    12908227+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda3            2296        4865    20643525    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hda4            4592        4865     2200873+   b  W95 FAT32
> /dev/hda5            2296        2308      104359+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda6            2309        4591    18338166   8e  Linux LVM
>
> TIA,
> Vinicius.

Hello,

My /etc/fstab is following:
"
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot              /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
devpts                   /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
tmpfs                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
proc                     /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
sysfs                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/hda5                /mnt/fat                auto   
auto,rw,uid=0,gid=501,showexec,quiet,fmask=117,dmask=007 0 0
/dev/hda1                /mnt/windows-sistema    ntfs    
ro,umask=0222,gid=502 0 0
/dev/hda3                /mnt/windows-dados      ntfs    
ro,umask=0222,gid=502 0 0
/dev/fd0           	/media/floppy            auto    
rw,noauto,user,sync	0 0
"

Please, help.

TIA,
Vinicius.

[Vinicius]

Vinicius escreveu:
> Vinicius <cviniciusm <at> uol.com.br> writes:
> > Leo <sdl.web <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > > On Thu, 28/09/06 04:31 +0100, Vinicius wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I have installed a Windows XP on another partition than my FC5.
> > > > The system boot
> > > > on Windows. I'm unable to do a dual-boot FC5 and XP.
> > > > The steps followed are below:
> > > > Boot from DVD, then on the prompt: linux rescue;
> > > > from the rescue mode prompt: chroot /mnt/sysimage;
> > > > then: /sbin/grub-install /dev/hda.
> > > >
> > > > So, occurs an error about stage1 incomplete or something like that.
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas, please?
> > > >
> > > > TIA,
> > > > Vinicius.
> > >
> > > Could you list your partitions?
> > > fdisk /dev/hda
> > > 'p' to print partition table
> > > 'q' to exit fdisk
> > >
> > > Attach the output in step 2 to the list. People might be able to help.
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > # fdisk -l
> > omitting empty partition (5)
> >
> > Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
> > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
> > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> >
> > Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> > /dev/hda1   *           1         688     5526328+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> > /dev/hda2             689        2295    12908227+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> > /dev/hda3            2296        4865    20643525    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> > /dev/hda4            4592        4865     2200873+   b  W95 FAT32
> > /dev/hda5            2296        2308      104359+  83  Linux
> > /dev/hda6            2309        4591    18338166   8e  Linux LVM
> >
> > TIA,
> > Vinicius.
>
> Hello,
>
> My /etc/fstab is following:
> "
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
> LABEL=/boot              /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
> devpts                   /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
> tmpfs                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
> proc                     /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
> sysfs                    /sys                    sysfs   defaults        0 0
> /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
> /dev/hda5                /mnt/fat                auto   
> auto,rw,uid=0,gid=501,showexec,quiet,fmask=117,dmask=007 0 0
> /dev/hda1                /mnt/windows-sistema    ntfs    
> ro,umask=0222,gid=502 0 0
> /dev/hda3                /mnt/windows-dados      ntfs    
> ro,umask=0222,gid=502 0 0
> /dev/fd0           	/media/floppy            auto    
> rw,noauto,user,sync	0 0
> "
>
> Please, help.
>
> TIA,
> Vinicius.

Solved it.

The Win XP reorganized the partition table, so I had to change it.

Regards,
Vinicius.