Has anyone used the Ubuntu Boot-Repair-Disk on Fedora ?
I have grub error on booting on a Fedora 18 Install, and I would like to use the Boot-Repair-Disk.
On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 19:24 -0400, Mickey wrote:
Has anyone used the Ubuntu Boot-Repair-Disk on Fedora ?
I have grub error on booting on a Fedora 18 Install, and I would like to use the Boot-Repair-Disk.
Why not use the Fedora rescue disk?
poc
PS Also, F18 is EOL so unsupported.
On Jun 26, 2014, at 5:24 PM, Mickey binarynut@comcast.net wrote:
Has anyone used the Ubuntu Boot-Repair-Disk on Fedora ?
I have grub error on booting on a Fedora 18 Install, and I would like to use the Boot-Repair-Disk.
I don't recommend doing this. GRUB is essentially forked by the distributions in ways that make various aspects non-interoperable. You're best off booting DVD or Netinstall Fedora media, choosing the troubleshooting submenu and then the rescue a system option. All that does is add rescue boot parameter, which then anaconda picks up, locates your installed system, mounts the parts in the appropriate places. S o then all you have to do on a system with BIOS firmware is: chroot /mnt/sysimage grub2-install /dev/sdX grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg exit reboot
If you're doing this on a system with UEFI firmware, it's a bit different. chroot /mnt/sysimage yum reinstall grub2-efi grub2-tools shim grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg exit reboot
Don't use grub2-install on EFI systems.
Chris Murphy
On 06/30/2014 01:06 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Jun 26, 2014, at 5:24 PM, Mickey binarynut@comcast.net wrote:
Has anyone used the Ubuntu Boot-Repair-Disk on Fedora ?
I have grub error on booting on a Fedora 18 Install, and I would like to use the Boot-Repair-Disk.
I don't recommend doing this. GRUB is essentially forked by the distributions in ways that make various aspects non-interoperable. You're best off booting DVD or Netinstall Fedora media, choosing the troubleshooting submenu and then the rescue a system option. All that does is add rescue boot parameter, which then anaconda picks up, locates your installed system, mounts the parts in the appropriate places. S o then all you have to do on a system with BIOS firmware is: chroot /mnt/sysimage grub2-install /dev/sdX grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg exit reboot
If you're doing this on a system with UEFI firmware, it's a bit different. chroot /mnt/sysimage yum reinstall grub2-efi grub2-tools shim grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg exit reboot
Don't use grub2-install on EFI systems.
Chris Murphy
It does not have a UEFI firmware on it.
I did try the fedora netinstall disk on it and it can't read it , it is showing the partitions and it is having what appears to be file system problems.
In the Rescue mode , it locks up when it gets to the point of running Anaconda.
I was thinking about putting the hard Drive in my Linux PC and see if I can check it further.
The computer went bad when the AC power in the house flickerd on and off a couple of times.
On 27.06.2014, Mickey wrote:
Has anyone used the Ubuntu Boot-Repair-Disk on Fedora ?
No. But I've been using sysresccd all the time, and also for grub repair. Has been working flawlessly.
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