Just Boots to GRUB

tryinghard · #1 5th July 2005, 09:21 PM

New FC 4 install - The installation completes but the boot is just to a GRUB command screen. As I am not sure where the kernel is in the file system or what its exact name is I don't know how to do a load from here. Never had a Linux Distro just dump me into GRUB. Help?

jombeewoof · #2 5th July 2005, 09:41 PM

is it a dual boot?
did you install fedora to /dev/hda or somewhere else
did anything weird happen during the install
did you sacrifice 3 floppy disks and a virgin CD-RW prior to installing fedora (everyone knows about that right?)

RatonGL · #3 5th July 2005, 09:56 PM

you can go to rescue mode,, with you first CD an type linux recue
then chroot /mnt/sysimae/ then grun-install and it must solve the problem i hpre :s

tryinghard · #4 5th July 2005, 11:11 PM

Nothing weird happened during the install - I installed to the default partion, etc. It is not a dual boot machine and of course I sacrificed a bunch of cd's prior to using the microsoft iso burner.

tryinghard · #5 5th July 2005, 11:38 PM

OK, I tried Linux rescue, chroot worked, but the shell does not recognize grun as a command or grun-install. So without running "Grun" when I exit the shell it reboots and takes me back to grub.

jgutty · #6 6th July 2005, 12:07 AM

The same thing happened to me. I'm not an expert, but not exactly a newbie either. Luckily I had a few days off to play around. Because of problems I had trying to fix my original upgrade, then trying to figure out how to get past the grub prompt in a clean FC4 install (repeated attempts)....I reloaded FC3.

The good news is that I fully expect the resources available through this forum to get all the issues resolved.

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jombeewoof · #7 6th July 2005, 12:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tryinghard

OK, I tried Linux rescue, chroot worked, but the shell does not recognize grun as a command or grun-install. So without running "Grun" when I exit the shell it reboots and takes me back to grub.

grun was a typo
it's supposed to be
grub-install

no space, if that doesn't work try

Code:

grub-install --recheck /dev/hda

RatonGL · #8 6th July 2005, 04:23 AM

sorry, thats my fault its grub-install sorry

tryinghard · #9 8th July 2005, 07:45 PM

OK, tried the corect grub-install, but still no love. I just boot to the darn grub command line everytime. Does anyone else have any thoughts?

akachrani · #10 8th July 2005, 10:44 PM

I am having similar problem, my linux machine no longers boots. I did a rescue using CD 1 and after typing linux rescue, I see
Kernel panic - no syncing: Attempted to kill the idle task!
bunch of [<c0416759>] messages..

please help..

thanks in advance

RatonGL · #11 9th July 2005, 04:57 PM

if you have XP you can go to XP rescue mode and put fixmbr, then try again with grub-install hda.