fc3, fc4, fc5, grub
Chuck Sterling
csterlin at zianet.com
Sun Apr 30 01:27:55 UTC 2006
Chuck Sterling wrote:
> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> Chuck Sterling wrote:
>>
>>> A month ago I tried to replace (not upgrade) fc3 with fc5 on my 1.7Ghz
>>> P4 PC. It used grub to boot fc3 or WinXP Pro, and worked fine with fc3.
>>> When I installed (not upgrade) fc5 I had it install grub. After, the
>>> system would get to the point where it displayed "GRUB" and stopped. Not
>>> a prompt; the system was locked up and would not answer the keyboard.
>>
>> Not really an answer to your problem,
>> but it seems to me there is a very strong argument
>> for having a separate /boot partition
>> which is left alone when you upgrade or install.
>>
>> In your case I wonder if grub was confused about the disks?
>> I'd try running Knoppix or Fedora in Rescue mode
>> and say "grub-install --recheck /dev/hda" or whatever.
>>
>>
> I did recall another detail but not the exact circumstances. In a couple
> of installation tries of fc5 it was as though the boot sector was
> untouched. The system would boot into WinXP without displaying any kind
> of boot menu. Right now the successful fc3 installation is being
> upgraded to fc4. We'll see... If it fails I will try the command
> suggested above.
>
> Chuck
>
Well, the fc4 upgrade worked. Starting on fc5. More news at ten...
Um, I did not get the note sent last night, and fc5 is Still Going,
though finally on disk 5... Very slow. Might be low on RAM at 256MB, and
it is a slow system 350Mhz PII, but still much slower than either fc3 or
fc4.
Chuck
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