[NTLUG:Discuss] Problem installing FC 6

[. Daniel]

There are Fedora Live CDs out there...


>Not to get too off topic here, but this is one of the reasons I switched
>from FC to Ubuntu - distros with a "live" cd are a lot easier to recover
>from things like this IMO.  Don't get me wrong, because I was a
>RedHat/FC user for a long time until I started seeing some really great
>Debian based distros like Ubuntu.  FC seems like a bit of a bloated
>install (5 or 6 cds, correct?) comparatively.
>
>My 2 cents :)
>
>Jeff
>
>Ps - this is my first post - Hello to all of you linux geeks!
>
>
>Leroy Tennison wrote:
> > John K. Taber wrote:
> >
> >> I tried to do a clean install of FC 6, but got unexpected results that 
I
> >> don't know how to recover from.
> >>
> >> I'm trying to get a dual boot system, with Windows XP on the first 
SATA
> >> drive, and FC 6 on the second.
> >>
> >> FC 6 seemed to install ok, replacing Windows MBR with GRUB. But on
> >> booting I got a grub command line instead of a grub screen that would
> >> let me select which system I wanted.
> >>
> >> It's text mode only, showing
> >> grub >
> >>
> >> I entered help, which showed the allowed commands but I don't know how
> >> to use them.
> >>
> >> I had to rescue Windows again with fixmbr.
> >>
> >> How on earth do I install FC 6 with grub dual boot? I think FC 6 *is*
> >> installed, just somehow grub got messed up.
> >>
> >> John
> >>
> >>
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> >>
> >>
> > This is anything but a quick fix but you can work with grub to get FC6
> > to boot if it is bootable at all.  First you need a GRUB boot diskette
> > (since you used fixmbr and got rid of the GRUB boot).  If you have
> > another Linux
> > machine this is easy.  Otherwise see
> > http://www.uruk.org/orig-grub/install.html#raw and download a grub 
image
> > (grub.img) as well as rawrite.exe from the URL below (search for
> > grub.img on the page, it's version 0.92)
> > 
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/comments-feedback-suggestions/5985-grub-diskette-download.html.

> >
> > Once you have booted to grub do:
> >
> > geometry (hd0,0)
> >
> >     See if you even show the Linux partition, fixmbr may have obscured
> >     it.  If it's not showing up then you might try testdisk
> >     (http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk) or DiskInternals
> >     
(http://www.programurl.com/software-diskinternals-linux-recovery-downloadnow.html).

> >     I've never used these so ask around before you do any
> >     modifications...  Maybe someone else has experience with one.
> >
> > (Assuming you find the Linux partition with grub or recover and then
> > find it...)
> >
> > find /boot/grub/menu.lst
> >
> > If that doesn't find anything then try
> >
> > find /boot/grub/grub.conf
> >
> > (Assuming you found it)
> >
> > cat <partition>/boot/grub/grub.conf
> >
> > where <partition> comes from the find command.  For example, if find
> > returned '(hd0,6)' then do
> >
> > cat (hd0,6)/boot/grub/grub.conf
> >
> > Carefully write down the 'root ...', 'kernel ...' and 'initrd ...' 
lines
> > and press enter if necessary to get out of the listing.
> >
> > At the prompt carefully type in the lines you wrote down
> >
> > root ...
> > kernel ...
> > initrd ...
> >
> > The response to the first should be brief partition information and 
file
> > information for the last two.  Now, hold your breath and type
> >
> > boot
> >
> > Hopefully the system will come up.  If not, tell us what happened...
> >
> >
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> >
> >
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