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satimis

Member

Registered: 2007-03-03

Posts: 186

Fail to boot after installation

Hi folks,

86-64 2007-08-02 core ISO

Installation went through w/o problem.  After finish on reboot it hangs on "GRUB".  The bootloader seems missing.

# fdisk -l

/dev/sda1  *  Linux   (/boot)
/dev/sda2      Linux   ( / )
/dev/sda3      Linux   (/var)
/dev/sda4      Extended
/dev/sda5      Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6      Linux  (/home)

# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
# ls /mnt

Systam.map26   grub         kernel26-fallback.img    lost+found
diag1.img          kconfig26  kernel26.img                vmlinuxz26

# cat /mnt/grub/menu.lst

timeout  5
default   0
color   light-blue/black   light-cyan/blue


# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root  (hd0,0)
kernel   /vmlinuz26   root=/dev/sda2   ro
initrd   /kernel26.img

# (1) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root  (hd0,0)
kernel   /vmlinuz26   root=/dev/sda2   ro
initrd   /kernel26-fallback.img

Please advise where shall I check and how to fix the problem.   TIA

B.R.
satimis

Last edited by satimis (2008-02-07 10:33:31)

satimis

Member

Registered: 2007-03-03

Posts: 186

Re: Fail to boot after installation

Hi folks,

Problem solved as follows;

Booting up the PC with the installer CD by pressing [Enter]

# grub
grub> root (hd0,0)

Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists ..... no
Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists ... yes
Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists ... yes
Checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists ... yes
Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)" ... 23 sectors are embedded.
Succeeded
Running "install /grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+23 p (hd0,0)/grub/stage2 /grub/menu.lst" ... succeeded
Done

grub> kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda2

[Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1c00, size=0x1ca588]

grub> boot
[Arch Linux: /]# reboot

It boots to;
moyhost login: root
[root@myhost ~]#

It is OK now.

B.R.
satimis