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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: rtgwbmsr on 17 September 2002, 04:32

Title: Ph*ck! Help!
Post by: rtgwbmsr on 17 September 2002, 04:32

OK, I'm on my Mac right now...
I installed pretty much a full installation of Red Hat. It restarted after it finished, and now it just says "GRUB" on a black DOS-esque screen. It doesn't boot, it doesn't do anything. Putting in the boot disk did the trick, but only gets me to Red Hat...I can't get into any of my other OSes! HELP!

Thanks

BTW: I've installed Red Hat before, and never had problems.

Title: Ph*ck! Help!
Post by: rtgwbmsr on 17 September 2002, 04:44

Progress!
When I check the LILO configuration, it says "Fatal: Kernal doesn't support initial RAM disks" WTF does that mean?

Title: Ph*ck! Help!
Post by: Master of Reality on 17 September 2002, 04:49

i dont know about this but could it be that you should have set the amount of memory to pass to the kernel in lilo/grub. (mem=128M or whatever).... but then it shouldnt even work with a boot disk...

Title: Ph*ck! Help!
Post by: rtgwbmsr on 17 September 2002, 04:58

Hi from me using Red Hat!
At least if I'm stuck in it...the internet works.

I'm going to go fishing for a solution. Any other help is greatly appreciated.

Title: Ph*ck! Help!
Post by: rtgwbmsr on 17 September 2002, 05:21

Here is my grub.conf file if it can help diagnose the problem:
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You do not have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
#          root (hd1,0)
#          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdb1
#          initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hdb1
default=1
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd1,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-3)
   root (hd1,0)
   kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev/hdb1
   initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.18-3.img
title XPee
   rootnoverify (hd0,0)
   chainloader +1

Title: Ph*ck! Help!
Post by: Master of Reality on 17 September 2002, 05:29

so your Linux is on your second harddrive and XP is on the first hardrive?

Title: Ph*ck! Help!
Post by: rtgwbmsr on 17 September 2002, 06:36

Yes.

My theory:
It's waiting for GRUB. As in, the stage 1 loader is there, and the stage 2 isn't. Maybe I should have installed the bootloader on hda (It's on hdb1 now)?

Title: Ph*ck! Help!
Post by: Master of Reality on 17 September 2002, 06:42

it should be installed on hda, yes.
I think you might need to do:
grub-install hd0

[ September 16, 2002: Message edited by: Master of Reality / Bob ]

Title: Ph*ck! Help!
Post by: rtgwbmsr on 17 September 2002, 07:50

I got it to work. m0r is right, I just did it the long way.

Title: Ph*ck! Help!
Post by: Master of Reality on 17 September 2002, 07:51

C00l. MoR sleep now.