[ale] reboot problem

Armsby John-G16665 John.Armsby at motorola.com
Wed Aug 20 20:37:41 EDT 2003


When I mount the OS filesystem rw, is line 2 on your advice below the correct syntax? 

John


-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Glass [mailto:jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2003 8:22 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] reboot problem


Boot into rescue mode.
Mount OS filesystem rw
chroot /mnt/sysimage
grub-install
exit chroot
reboot

> Armsby John-G16665 wrote:
>> I have a GHOST image restored on an identical PC to the original.
>> Operating system is Redhat 8.0.  Upon boot it STOPS at a GRUB prompt.
>> When I insert the rescue floppy, it boots normally.  How do I fix the
>> boot loader to boot normally?
>>
>> The man page on grub is not helpful to me.  Neither is the info grub
>> manual.
>>
>> I know this is simple.  It evades me however...
>
> What does /boot/grub/grub.conf look like on machine A and machine B?
> Does it refer to the correct device for both? Here is my file:
>
> # 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 (hd0,0)
> #          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda1
> #          initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
> #boot=/dev/hda
> default=0
> timeout=10
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> title Red Hat Linux (2.4.21)
>          root (hd0,0)
>          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21 ro root=/dev/hda1
>
> Check that file and be sure that all references and paths are correct.
>
>
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