[Wylug-help] GRUB extra

[scott]

Thank you all for your help.  

I am either going to reinstall fedora without GRUB again or reinstall
fedora and the GRUB but not in the mbr or make primary; therefore i
would be able to use chainloader +1.  
Unless anyone has a better solution?


On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 12:00 +0000, Craig Hopkins wrote:
> Quoting scott <linux at sh2515.plus.com> on Wed 28 Feb 2007 10:23:42 AM GMT:
> 
> > when I entered the directory /mnt/fedora all that came up was lost
> > +found.  I have installed a /boot partition here so I can experiment
> > with GRUB to enable me to not depend on the distro installation to find
> > all the OS's on my PC - because they have failed in the past to enable
> > me to load them from GRUB.  I also tried mounting sda6 which is the
> > actual fedora core 6 installation and the same lost+found came up. can
> > anyone explain what I am doing wrong.
> 
> Have you got any other partitions lurking anywhere that you haven't checked,
> just in case you installed it to the wrong place? 'ls /dev/sd*' at the terminal
> will tell you which partitions you have... or use hwbrowser if you have gnome.

the only other partition is sda4 which is an extended partition.

> 
> > the reason for me wanting to mount my drive is to find out the exact
> > kernal i have installed for me to tell GRUB.
> 
> Makes sense. Are you sure Fedora installed properly, though? If all you're
> seeing is a couple of lost+found folders, that suggests empty partitions. I'd
> have a look at your other partitions to see what you can find.
> 
> > Craig Hopkins showed me his Grub for fedora and corrected my mistakes,
> > but when I select it Grub tells me I have to load the kernal before
> > initrd.  this leads me to surmise that I have inputted the wrong kernal
> > for it to load.
> 
> If the root() part is wrong, then grub is trying to load a kernel that doesn't
> exist, hence it telling you to load the kernel first. Try looking at your other
> partitions to see if you can track down the fedora installation (just don't
> confuse it with your current distro)
> 
> > I must apologise for dragging this out so long, as it must be a facile
> > task for most of you to do.
> 
> You wouldn't believe the things I've managed to do wrong with grub in the past.
> It's all part of the fun. :)
> 
> 
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