booting from DVD image on hard drive partition

[Michael Hennebry]

Well, I screwed up royally again.

On Sun, 25 Mar 2012, stan wrote:

> On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 18:04:47 -0500 (CDT)
> Michael Hennebry <hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 25 Mar 2012, stan wrote:
>
>> > There is something wrong with your install. 
>> >
>> > You can try rebuilding your rpm database as root.
>> > rpm --rebuilddb
>> > This will take a while, depending on your package count.
>> 
>> That did it.  I can use yum now.
>
> Excellent, sounds like you are in business.
>
>> Of course that does not explain what happened in the first place.
>
> The database wasn't written properly because of hard drive or power
> problems?  Faulty power supply levels can do really flaky things to a
> computer.

I really hope not.
That would mean that fixing it would require cracking the case.
The last time I did it, I zapped my video card.
Even if everything went perfectly this time, I wouldn't know that.

I didn't know enough to trust the install, so I tried again, twice.
The last time, I apparently told anaconda something bad about booting.
Now, if I boot from disk sda, all I get is the grub command line.
I can use the configfile to boot from that, but I would rather not.
I've tried to use super-grub to fix it, but to know avail.
Where is the magic spell to boot using sda2 as /boot ?
I've been RTFM, but I've not been able to find it.
super-grub didn't help.

    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1              63    28676024    14337981    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda2   *    28676025    28871576       97776   83  Linux
/dev/sda3        28871577    45668888     8398656   83  Linux
/dev/sda4        45668889    78165359    16248235+   5  Extended
/dev/sda5        45668952    49574888     1952968+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6        49574952    62856296     6640672+  83  Linux
/dev/sda7        62856360    78165359     7654500   83  Linux

Here is /grub/grub.conf from /dev/sda2 :
# 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 (hd1,1)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sdb3
#          initrd /initrd-[generic-]version.img
#boot=/dev/sdb2
default=0
timeout=0
splashimage=(hd1,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686)
 	root (hd1,1)
 	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686 ro root=UUID=f38145b3-1424-4162-8c93-2640827ba4b5 rd_NO_LUKS rd_NO_LVM rd_NO_MD rd_NO_DM LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SYSFONT=latarcyrheb-sun16 KEYTABLE=us rhgb quiet
 	initrd /initramfs-2.6.35.6-45.fc14.i686.img

Note the 14's.
Despite trying to install F15, I seem to have gotten F14.
sda is the hard disk listed first in the BIOS.

>> Also, I clilcked on at least three desktop environments.
>> gnome is the only one that seems to be installed.

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Michael   hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"On Monday, I'm gonna have to tell my kindergarten class,
whom I teach not to run with scissors,
that my fiance ran me through with a broadsword."  --  Lily