can't boot fresh install

Alan Evans ame.fedora at gmail.com
Sun Aug 9 09:09:36 UTC 2009


On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 1:45 AM, Frank Murphy (Frankly3D) wrote:
> No, I meant if you try and boot normally.
> from the hard disk, without any cd\dvd

Sorry, I thought I must be misunderstanding your question. Removing
the rescue disc from the CD drive results in:

DISK BOOT FAILURE,  INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER

> Also can you post the output of
> blkid

/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/sda2: UUID="58bff551-9c48-4de4-bdda-925c9723c5d7" TYPE="ext3"
/dev/sda3: UUID="PUBQIG-U0DE-pg7E-fqD9-sSTI-hR2q-Kcn5R8" TYPE="lvm2pv"
/dev/dm-0: UUID="e2ea8c9c-18cb-4ad2-9986-9915169b58f5" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/dm-1: UUID="03b40559-75d9-40ee-a738-4fb0106c615d" TYPE="swap"

> and menu.lst

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,1)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_home-lv_root
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=0
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.i686.PAE)
	root (hd0,1)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.i686.PAE ro
root=/dev/mapper/vg_home-lv_root rhgb quiet
	initrd /initrd-2.6.29.6-217.2.3.fc11.i686.PAE.img

> editor of choice (vi) /boot/grub/menu.lst
>
> you can possibly email both using a liveCD,
> if you have one.

I don't have a LiveCD handy, only the netinstall CD. Downloading a
LiveCD would take me a very long time.




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