F10 stuck at grub -

[Bob Goodwin]

I just ran the Fedora 10 Livecd [gnome] install as I have done
        several times from this CDROM. All seemed to go normally but it
        wont boot, just begins and stops with grub and a blinking cursor
        at which point I can't enter anything from the keyboard.

And now it wont let me rerun the live cd a second time?

What do I do now?

Bob

[Frank Cox]

On Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:37:35 -0400
Bob Goodwin wrote:
>    I just ran the Fedora 10 Livecd [gnome] install as I have done
>     several times from this CDROM. All seemed to go normally but it
>     wont boot, just begins and stops with grub and a blinking cursor
>     at which point I can't enter anything from the keyboard.

Boot from a rescue CD (the live cd will probably work) and type "linux rescue"
at the prompt.

After getting to a prompt run "chroot /mnt/sysimage" and then
"grub-install /dev/sda".

Type exit twice and the computer should reboot and will then work.

[Smith, Herb]

You can also use a cd made from the boot.iso if it won't take your
liveCD...same process.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Frank Cox [mailto:[e-mail]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 4:58 PM
> To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. 
> Subject: Re: F10 stuck at grub -
>
> On Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:37:35 -0400
> Bob Goodwin wrote:
> >    I just ran the Fedora 10 Livecd [gnome] install as I 
>
> have done
> >     several times from this CDROM. All seemed to go 
>
> normally but it
> >     wont boot, just begins and stops with grub and a 
>
> blinking cursor
> >     at which point I can't enter anything from the keyboard.
>
> Boot from a rescue CD (the live cd will probably work) and 
> type "linux rescue"
> at the prompt.
>
> After getting to a prompt run "chroot /mnt/sysimage" and then 
> "grub-install /dev/sda".
>
> Type exit twice and the computer should reboot and will then work.
>
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[Bob Goodwin]

Smith, Herb wrote:
> You can also use a cd made from the boot.iso if it won't take your
> liveCD...same process.

Is there a "boot.iso" file on the livecd?

I can't find it, probably missing something but ...

Bob

[Smith, Herb]

http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/fedora.redhat/linux/releases/10/Fedora/i
386/os/images/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Goodwin [mailto:[e-mail]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009 6:31 PM
> To: Community assistance, encouragement,and advice for using Fedora.
> Subject: Re: F10 stuck at grub -
>
> Smith, Herb wrote:
> > You can also use a cd made from the boot.iso if it won't take your 
> > liveCD...same process.
>
> Is there a "boot.iso" file on the livecd?
>
> I can't find it, probably missing something but ...
>
> Bob
>
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[Bob Goodwin]

Smith, Herb wrote:
> http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/fedora.redhat/linux/releases/10/Fedora/i
> 386/os/images/

Yes I found a site with the boot.iso stuff and put it on a cd. Even
    then I had problems and finally decided to remove the hard drives
    and replace them with one larger drive which was my ultimate
    intention anyway. Even then the livecd had trouble trying to install
    over an existing F-10 on that larger drive. I had to reformat it
    with fdisk ... Then the livecd install went as expected.

I also learned a few other things ....

I believe most of my trouble was due to an item in the BIOS setup
    that I had not noticed before which forced it to boot from the first
    drive and I had put everything on the second. I didn't notice that
    until I replaced the drives and went through the BIOS settings for
    the nth time!

We get too late smart.

Thanks to all for the help. Now to continue my file server
    experimentation.

Bob

[Bob Goodwin]

Frank Cox wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:37:35 -0400
> Bob Goodwin wrote:
> >    I just ran the Fedora 10 Livecd [gnome] install as I have done
> >     several times from this CDROM. All seemed to go normally but it
> >     wont boot, just begins and stops with grub and a blinking cursor
> >     at which point I can't enter anything from the keyboard.
>
> Boot from a rescue CD (the live cd will probably work) and type "linux rescue"
> at the prompt.
>
> After getting to a prompt run "chroot /mnt/sysimage" and then
> "grub-install /dev/sda".
>
> Type exit twice and the computer should reboot and will then work.

I guess I will have to make a boot disk, the livecd goes right on about 
it's business. I see no chance to enter "linux rescue."

Thanks I will do as you suggest as soon as I get some other domestic 
chores behind me.

Bob

[Kevin Kofler]

Bob Goodwin wrote:
> I guess I will have to make a boot disk, the livecd goes right on about
> it's business. I see no chance to enter "linux rescue."

You can use a live CD for rescue purposes if you know what you're doing, but
you have to manually mount your installed system, you don't
get /mnt/sysimage automatically mounted.

Kevin Kofler