argh, grub woes

Net Llama! netllama
Thu Nov 25 07:40:10 PST 2004


On 11/25/2004 08:38 AM, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>> On 11/24/2004 11:28 PM, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
>>
>>> Net Llama! wrote:
>>>
>>>> Just upgraded my wife's laptop from FC2 to FC3, and now when i boot 
>>>> I get dumped to a 'grub>' prompt that just sits there waiting for me 
>>>> to do something.
>>>>
>>>> Running:
>>>> root (hd0,0)
>>>> setup (hd0)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Looks perfect to me.
>>> Can you boot manually from the grub> prompt, ie
>>> root (hd0,0)
>>> kernel /vmlinuz ....
>>> initrd /initrd ....
>>> boot
>>> ?
>>> Klaus
>>
>>
>>
>> Yes, that works, and is the same stuff in menu.lst on the laptop.  So 
>> it seems like its not finding menu.lst when it boots up, but i can't 
>> figure out why.
>>
>>
> Could it be looking for grub.conf?

maybe, but i can't see why.  it exists in /boot/grub/ (which points to 
/etc/grub.conf)


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