Grub2 on Fedora Core 4

Computer Guru · #1 6th November 2005, 08:41 PM

Has anyone here successfully installed Grub2 on Fedora Core 4???

In doing so I ended up messing up my MBR..

I have linux installed to a reiserFS partition. At the moment I have NO grub whatsoever.

Can someone help me out?

when I try grub-setup it asks for core.img which I do not have, and is not on the entire HD, and is not in the package.

I downloaded the latest non-CVS from the FTP.

raoul · #2 7th November 2005, 08:12 AM

Have you tried to reinstall grub on the MBR from rescue mode?

Code:

# /mnt/sysimage/sbin/grub-install /dev/hdX

X: your drive
I have never used GRUB2, but I believe this should be the same procedure.

Else, you could try to reinstall the default fc4 grub rpm from rescue mode:

Code:

# rpm -ivh --root=/mnt/sysimage/ /path/to/grub.rpm

and then install grub on the MBR using the previous command.

Computer Guru · #3 7th November 2005, 12:02 PM

i tried the first..... but from a different directory and then ig et /sbin/grub-install not found.
it does not exist on my PC....

I will try the RPM method

Is there an RPM of Grub2?

raoul · #4 8th November 2005, 05:33 AM

grub-install is part of the grub package, so you may want to install the grub package first. You may also need to use the --force option with the rpm command.
I didn't notice you had previously wrote you have no GRUB files installed...

Computer Guru · #5 8th November 2005, 07:20 AM

OK, will check it out. thanks a lot.

**Finalzone** · #6 8th November 2005, 08:01 AM

You mean the new GRUB 2 instead of GRUB legacy? I think nobody worked on that version yet since GRUB 2 is still on alpha stage.

Computer Guru · #7 8th November 2005, 08:12 AM

yeah,. im talking grub2

on GNU GRUB site it says that grub legacy is 100% dead, use GRUB2 now.... i really was surprised: no major distro ships with GRUB2, GRUB2 is alpha and unstable, YET the persist and say use it.

**Finalzone** · #8 8th November 2005, 08:23 AM

Grub Legacy 100% dead means it is no longer developed. however, it is still maintained.
You have the honor to be one of the first user to try Grub 2. As no one around has used Grub 2 before, you should ask Grub 2 developers themselves about the problem and perhaps become a package maintainer of Grub 2 in Fedora Extras. Good luck.

Computer Guru · #9 8th November 2005, 11:58 AM

why, thank you. but according to teh GNU GRUB website:

Quote:

GRUB Legacy is no longer being developed. For the differences between GRUB Legacy and GRUB 2, please visit their respective pages.