FC3T2 Kernel Startup

[John Hawkins]

Since I have a rescue disk and I felt like playing with installing grub
I took a chance at using hda and hda1. Neither work - here's what grub-
install does:

[root at localhost ~]# grub-install /dev/hda
Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 does not have any corresponding BIOS
drive.
[root at localhost ~]# grub-install /dev/hda1
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 does not have any corresponding BIOS
drive.

Any suggestions on how to get grub installed on this system?

I've gambled enough and will wait and see if someone has a suggestion.

Thanks Again.

> O.K. I did some research and now understand that I can install grub
> using grub-install, but I have one question. I have two physical disks
> hda and hdb. hda1 = /boot; hda2 = swap; hda3 = lvm physical volume and
> hdb1 = lvm physical volume. When I execute grub-install do I specify hda
> or hda1?
> 
> Thanks for any advice.
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, 2004-10-09 at 19:21 -0400, John Hawkins wrote:
> > I wasn't certain whether /boot/grub was supposed to exist as I read in
> > my RH8 documentation because the only thing in my boot directory are
> > four files:
> > config-2.6.8-1.603
> > initrd-2.6.8-1.603.img
> > system.map-2.6.8-1.603
> > vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.603
> > 
> > No subdirectories under boot. I thought that since I am using LVM
> > something might be different from my original documentation.
> > 
> > How do I get boot/grub installed? Is it located on any of the
> > installation disks? Any advice is welcomed.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> > 
> > > You need to update your grub configuration (perhaps it didn't updated
> > > automatically). Go to /boot/grub and edit menu.lst. Change 2.6.7-1.478 to
> > > 2.6.8-1.520 everywhere you see this numbers (kernel..., initrd...). Do it
> > > with root permissions, save and reboot.
> > > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > > From: "John Hawkins" <jhawkins at tampabay.rr.com>
> > > To: <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> > > Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 9:02 PM
> > > Subject: FC3T2 Kernel Startup
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > I have FC3T2 installed on a PIII 450 mhz system. The initial
> > > > installation installed kernel 2.6.7-1.478 and I upgraded the kernel with
> > > > up2date to kernel 2.6.8-1.520 last night. The boot process is not how
> > > > expect it to behave and the new kernel is not being loaded. I've
> > > > rebooted a number of times and have tried to write everything down on
> > > > paper so that I could document this issue. I haven't caught everything,
> > > > so if I am missing something that you think is important, let me know
> > > > and I'll keep booting until I get it all. Here's what I see.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > A quick flash that looks like Grub Stage 2 (not certain as it really
> > > > flashes too quick to read it well).
> > > >
> > > > Root (hd0,0)
> > > > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> > > > kernel /vmlinux - 2.6.7-1.478 ro root= /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb
> > > > quiet
> > > > [Linux -bz Image, setup=0x1400, size=0x148891]
> > > > initrd /initrd-2.6.7-1.478.img
> > > > [Linux-initrd @ 0x17f3a000,0xa5eba bytes]
> > > >
> > > > Uncompressing Linux..... OK, booting the kernel
> > > > audit (1097336390.4294966319:0) initialized
> > > > Red Hat Nash version 3.5.24 starting
> > > > reading all physical volumes. This may take a while.....
> > > > Found Volume group "VolGroup00" using media at the lvm2 (it think this
> > > > is what this line says - I can't read my scribling well)
> > > > I then get a full screen of what appears to be some type of hex dump
> > > > like:
> > > >
> > > > 88 36 03 05 00 40 ed (and so on for at least 40 lines)
> > > >
> > > > After a few seconds the screen clears and the following is displayed:
> > > >
> > > > Fedora Core Release 2.90 (FC3 Test1)
> > > > Linux 2.6.7-1.478 on an i686
> > > >
> > > > localhost login:
> > > >
> > > > after a couple of seconds the screen clears and I get the Fedora Core
> > > > Graphical login screen.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas why the updated version of the kernel is not loading?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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