[TriLUG] Rh9 hosed boot loader

[Jim Ray]

Yyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!

You da man.  It worked.  I will not stay up tonight re-loading rh9 and
preparing for tomorrow's lab since you saved the day.  Many thanks!!!

Here's a summary of the solution:

Rescue Mode
1.boot rh9 cd1 w/ f5 -> shell-2.05b#
2.chroot /mnt/sysimage		; logs in as root
3.grub-install /dev/hda		; magic command from Matthew Lavigne

TriLUG rules.

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Lavigne [mailto:maillist at shenandoahkennels.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 6:12 PM
To: jim at neuse.net; Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Rh9 hosed boot loader


On Tuesday 03 February 2004 07:22 am, Jim Ray wrote:
> In my infinite wisdom, I made a ghost image (yes, winders based) of 
> the rhce study group rh9 computer and proceeded to load debian.  I got 
> stuck and decided to continue with debian at a later date after I 
> learn more about the installation options.
>
> No prob.  I ghosted the rh9 disk back onto the box.  Now, it will not 
> boot. All I see is GRUB GRUB.
>
> I tried to do some troubleshooting with mandrake move boot cd and then 
> with rh9 rescue mode boot cd to no avail:
>
> Rescue Mode
> 1.boot rh9 cd1 w/ f5 -> shell-2.05b#
> 2.chroot /mnt/sysimage


if you get to this point then you should be chrooted into your system...  do
a 
'mount' and look at the output.  If should be mounted the way that you 
expect.  If not then there may be other issues but I suspect that you will
be 
mounted correctly.

then you can do one of several thing..  

1. grub-install /dev/hda

or a bit more complex but from gentoo

2. grub 

from the grub prompt- 	root(hd0,0)
		then 			setup (hd0)
		then			quit

#2 does the same thing as the grub-install (but I trust it a little more)

The other thing that you can do then is to do an fdisk /dev/hda then press
'p' and make sure that your /dev/hda1 is set to bootable if not 
then press 'a' and the partition that is your boot partition.

That *should* get you up and running. If not then post back and I will see
if 
I can help you any more.
> 3.mount -o /mnt/hda1 -> cannot find in /etc/fstab
> 4.mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 -> no such file or directory 5.chroot 
> /mnt/hda1 lilo


Matthew Lavigne