fc3, fc4, fc5, grub

[Chuck Sterling]

Chuck Sterling wrote:
> 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
> 
And it did finally finish, grub operating normally. I'll test it some 
over the next cupla days and let it do a yum update. Then we'll see...

Chuck