[TriLUG] Fedora, grub and ext3 questions

[Carlos J. Cela]

Thanks David, that fixed it.

Apparently Fedora upgrades the files in the /boot partition to the new 
version of Grub, but does not properly copy the stage1 file to the MBR 
of the harddisk - the old stage1 did not like the new grub's stage2... 
reinstaling everything by hand did the trick.

Carlos-


David A. Cafaro wrote:

>I'd try booting from the rescue disk into single user mode, chroot to
>the harddrives root "/" and try reinstalling grub.  Maybe the old grub
>from RH8 got left on vs the new Fedora grub.
>
>-David
>
>On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 19:13, Carlos J. Cela wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I upgraded my home PC (a P3 Dell Dimension XPS, with a promise Ultra66 
>>disk controller) from RH8 to Fedora Core, and grub is halting after 
>>displaying "Stage 2" and a couple of graphic chars on the screen. I can 
>>boot perfectly fine from a Fedora rescue disk, everything works when 
>>doing so, but the PC will just not boot from the harddisk.
>>
>>When upgrading to Fedora, I requested the installer to convert my root 
>>partition from ext2 to ext3 - could this have cause grub not to work 
>>properly?
>>
>>I recall having issues long time ago getting the Promise Ultra66 to work 
>>with RH7 (would install but not recognize the disk afterwards). Could 
>>this be the case here?
>>
>>Any help will be appreciated.
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Carlos-
>>    
>>