Can't find a Fedora 11 entry in grub boot loader

eschi · #1 10th June 2009, 04:50 PM

Hi.

I successfully installed Fedora 11 from the DVD iso. At the end, the installation program prompts me to reboot the system. But when the boot loader appears after rebooting, there are only the old entries.

I have 2 IDE disks and one sata disk. The first IDE disk is hd0, the second IDE is hd1. The SATA disk is hd2. In the setup, I selected hd0 to install grub. Fedora 11 was installed on the SATA disk (hd2).

Does anybody have any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

[edit] I forgot to say, that Fedora 10 is on /dev/sda and Fedora 9 on /dev/sdb

scotty38 · #2 10th June 2009, 05:34 PM

Can you post your grub and also the output of fdisk -l

eschi · #3 10th June 2009, 05:59 PM

Hi Scotty38.

I have to reboot Fedora 10 to get the grub.conf.
As you can see, nothing has changed in the grub.conf:

Quote:

# 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 (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.27.24-170.2.68.fc10.i686)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.24-170.2.68.fc10.i686 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet nopat
initrd /initrd-2.6.27.24-170.2.68.fc10.i686.img
title Fedora (2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i686)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i686 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet nopat
initrd /initrd-2.6.27.21-170.2.56.fc10.i686.img
title Fedora (2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet nopat
initrd /initrd-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686.img
title Fedora (2.6.27.9-73.fc9.i686)
root (hd2,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.9-73.fc9.i686 ro root=/dev/VolGroup02/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.27.9-73.fc9.i686.img
title Fedora (2.6.27.7-53.fc9.i686)
root (hd2,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.7-53.fc9.i686 ro root=/dev/VolGroup02/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.27.7-53.fc9.i686.img
title Fedora (2.6.27.5-41.fc9.i686)
root (hd2,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.27.5-41.fc9.i686 ro root=/dev/VolGroup02/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.27.5-41.fc9.i686.img

This is the output of fdisk -l:

Quote:

Disk /dev/sda: 400.0 GB, 400087375360 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000754ec

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 25 200781 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 26 48641 390508020 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/sdb: 120.0 GB, 120060444672 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14596 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf54ca1ec

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 25 200781 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 26 14596 117041557+ 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/sdc: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0008fa9b

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 26 204800 83 Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdc2 26 60801 488179201 8e Linux LVM

scotty38 · #4 10th June 2009, 06:56 PM

Doesn't grub suggest F9 is on hd2?

eschi · #5 11th June 2009, 10:43 AM

Sorry. You're totally right.
Forget about Fedora 9 is on hd1. Fedora 9 was on hd2. Now there is the fresh installation of Fedora 11, but the entries for Fedora 11 were not written to grub.conf.

Is there a possibility to mount an ext4 filesystem under Fedora 10? So I could have a look at the filesystem where the kernel is and write the grub.conf entries by myself.
Or maybe someone could post his/her Fedora 11 entries in their grub.conf?

eschi · #6 11th June 2009, 11:17 AM

Ok. The ext4 filesystem isn't supported by grub, so the /boot partition is an ext3 filesystem. I mounted /dev/sdc1 and now I'm totally confused. The directory is empty. There is only a lost+found directory.

scotty38 · #7 11th June 2009, 11:56 AM

Isn't it sdb2 you should be trying to get to?

eschi · #8 11th June 2009, 01:58 PM

No, as far as I know, the anaconda installer of Fedora makes two partitions. A first partition in ext3 with the /boot directory, and a second partition in ext4 for the volume group.

I installed Fedora 11 again, and now it works. I don't have any idea, what went wrong. But I'm happy now :-)

So thank you very much for your help scotty38.