FC2 no grub.conf created
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akabi at speakeasy.net
Fri May 21 12:40:05 UTC 2004
On May 20, 2004 at 12:53, B.J. McClure in a soothing rage wrote:
>Greetings.
>
>Clean install of FC2 would not boot. Grub supposedly installed to MBR
>of 40 gig IDE. No other OS installed. Boot attempts failed with the
>word "GRUB" displayed. No command line. Rescue disk could not locate
>grub.conf. Tried writing to /boot, that didn't work either. Did
>several fresh installs with identical results.
You know you only need one fresh install.
>Replaced 40 gig IDE with 20 gig IDE...same result. Finally tried Custom
>> minimal install on 20 gig drive and it booted normally to CUI. Then
>upgraded the install to "Workstation" default apps without rewriting the
>MBR. Rebooted and it hung with grub> displayed. Keyed in usual
>grub.conf lines, issued boot command and it did, GUI and all.
>
>Searched for grub.conf and there was none. Created grub.conf in
>/boot/grub and all is well.
>
>WHY?
Er, you got issues (-: Jokes aside, we need to know more
about your hardware. Plus you need to boot with the
rescue disk, chroot /mnt/sysimage, make sure a suitable
/boot/grub/grub.conf exists and then
grub-install --recheck /dev/hda .
N.Emile...
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