MBR gone and rescue disc not happy - HELP!!!!

[Res]

get rid of grubby brug
that load of shit gave me more grief then whats its worth
the first thing I do in rpm -e grub and install lilo from source

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Paul F. Johnson wrote:

> Hi,
>
>>> No changes to the drives, BIOS or anything like that. Did an update via yum (I
>>> think it was on Saturday), reset and nothing - failed to boot completely.
>>
>> GRUB and a hang implies it is choking very early indeed. The MBR is
>> ok because it said GRUB, but after that its a bit suspect and it
>> seems its not finding the the right blocks for GRUB (or something
> attached/changed
>> the BIOS config order - eg a USB bootable device - one box here fails
>> much the way you describe if I accidentally leave a USB key in it during
>> boot)
>
> I've disconnected everything except the main HD and the video card. No other
> cards or drives are in the box. I get the same result. I'll try killing USB next.
>
>> The fsck result is hopeful - but did you just get an immediate
>> "clean" return from ext3 or did you force a full check ? (-f option) ?
>
> Did it with -f and it was clean.
>
>> "It does complain that some of the points have not been mounted due
>> to a problem"
>>
>> Actual exact message text is good, thats why error handlers don't
>> just all print "It broke"
>
> The error is along the lines of some of the devices have failed to mount. I'm
> assuming that when the rescue disc boots, it reads the fstab on the drive it's
> trying to mount and use them. The only one which looks like it's failed to
> mount is /dev/hda1 which is where the /boot directory is.
>
> TTFN
>
> Paul
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Cheers
Res