grub issues

[geoflyer]

I'm a noob so bear with me. I been using fedora since fc3 but it has always installed with minimal probs. now that i have installed fc6 all i get on reboot is "GRUB" with a blinking curser. I'm dual booting xp on one drive and have a windows Partition and linux spread accross two more drives I'm also using lvm. any ideas on how to fix?

[rlozano]

Originally Posted by geoflyer

I'm a noob so bear with me. I been using fedora since fc3 but it has always installed with minimal probs. now that i have installed fc6 all i get on reboot is "GRUB" with a blinking curser. I'm dual booting xp on one drive and have a windows Partition and linux spread accross two more drives I'm also using lvm. any ideas on how to fix?

i suggest that you boot from the live cd, or rescue cd, and try to get your grub menu content and post it here, so people may have a better idea of what ins your grub.

[Seve]

Hello:
You likely need to re-install grub
boot into linux rescue and follow along until the last prompt # then type
chroot /mnt/sysimage
then type
fdisk -l
to list out your drives and partitions and to identify where you want grub installed

then
grub-install /dev/hdx <---- your target drive

this will install grub on the mbr of /dev/hdx

Seve

[geoflyer]

grub install couldnt find /sbin/grub used xpdisk to write new mbr may try boot magic thanks for the help. rdm

[danelson]

I'm having a similar problem to the original poster. The install went fine, but on each boot I end up at a GRUB prompt. My grub.conf is as follows:

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd1,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2849.fc6)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2849.fc6xen)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /xen.gz-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6
module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6xen ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
module /initrd-2.6.18-1.2849.fc6xen.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img
title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /xen.gz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
module /initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen.img
title Windows 2000 Professional
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1


From the prompt I am able to manually boot into FC6 or Windows with no problems by using the commands in grub.conf, so I'm assuming grub is installed correctly and I just have some sort of minor configuration issue to sort out, but I'm at a complete loss as to what to do next. Any suggestions?