[NTLUG:Discuss] Problem installing FC 6

[Jeff]

Not to get too off topic here, but this is one of the reasons I switched 
from FC to Ubuntu - distros with a "live" cd are a lot easier to recover 
from things like this IMO.  Don't get me wrong, because I was a 
RedHat/FC user for a long time until I started seeing some really great 
Debian based distros like Ubuntu.  FC seems like a bit of a bloated 
install (5 or 6 cds, correct?) comparatively.

My 2 cents :)

Jeff

Ps - this is my first post - Hello to all of you linux geeks!


Leroy Tennison wrote:
> John K. Taber wrote:
>   
>> I tried to do a clean install of FC 6, but got unexpected results that I
>> don't know how to recover from.
>>
>> I'm trying to get a dual boot system, with Windows XP on the first SATA
>> drive, and FC 6 on the second.
>>
>> FC 6 seemed to install ok, replacing Windows MBR with GRUB. But on
>> booting I got a grub command line instead of a grub screen that would
>> let me select which system I wanted.
>>
>> It's text mode only, showing
>> grub >
>>
>> I entered help, which showed the allowed commands but I don't know how
>> to use them.
>>
>> I had to rescue Windows again with fixmbr.
>>
>> How on earth do I install FC 6 with grub dual boot? I think FC 6 *is*
>> installed, just somehow grub got messed up.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
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> This is anything but a quick fix but you can work with grub to get FC6 
> to boot if it is bootable at all.  First you need a GRUB boot diskette 
> (since you used fixmbr and got rid of the GRUB boot).  If you have 
> another Linux
> machine this is easy.  Otherwise see 
> http://www.uruk.org/orig-grub/install.html#raw and download a grub image 
> (grub.img) as well as rawrite.exe from the URL below (search for 
> grub.img on the page, it's version 0.92) 
> http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/comments-feedback-suggestions/5985-grub-diskette-download.html.
>
> Once you have booted to grub do:
>
> geometry (hd0,0)
>
>     See if you even show the Linux partition, fixmbr may have obscured
>     it.  If it's not showing up then you might try testdisk
>     (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk) or DiskInternals
>     (http://www.programurl.com/software-diskinternals-linux-recovery-downloadnow.html). 
>     I've never used these so ask around before you do any
>     modifications...  Maybe someone else has experience with one.
>
> (Assuming you find the Linux partition with grub or recover and then 
> find it...)
>
> find /boot/grub/menu.lst
>
> If that doesn't find anything then try
>
> find /boot/grub/grub.conf
>
> (Assuming you found it)
>
> cat <partition>/boot/grub/grub.conf
>
> where <partition> comes from the find command.  For example, if find 
> returned '(hd0,6)' then do
>
> cat (hd0,6)/boot/grub/grub.conf
>
> Carefully write down the 'root ...', 'kernel ...' and 'initrd ...' lines 
> and press enter if necessary to get out of the listing.
>
> At the prompt carefully type in the lines you wrote down
>
> root ...
> kernel ...
> initrd ...
>
> The response to the first should be brief partition information and file 
> information for the last two.  Now, hold your breath and type
>
> boot
>
> Hopefully the system will come up.  If not, tell us what happened...
>
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