boot failure after upgrading from RH9 to FC3
Hi after installing(upgrading) FC3 onto my existing RH9 system it now fails show the default grub boot menu ,instead it boots to the grub command shell. my system config is a follows 1x pII 550MHZ 512M RAM 1 x scsi disk drive (only used for linux) 1 x ide hard disk drive (secondary channel/slave)(not used) 1 x flop ...
Hi after installing(upgrading) FC3 onto my existing RH9 system it now fails show the default grub boot menu ,instead it boots to the grub command shell. my system config is a follows
1x pII 550MHZ 512M RAM
1 x scsi disk drive (only used for linux)
1 x ide hard disk drive (secondary channel/slave)(not used)
1 x floppy drive
1 x ide cdrom
1 x scsi cdrom
note: the scsi disk drive is selected as the default boot device
from within the bios
under the grub device.map file the above devices are seen in the following order
(fd0) floppy
(hd0)Ide disk drive
(hd1) SCSI disk drive
the only way I am able to start linux is to type the following from the grub shell.
Grub>:kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 /root=/dev/sda5
Grub>:initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
Grub>:boot
I have checked the device.map and menu.lst file and they seem to be ok
my partitions for the scsi drive is configured as follows
linux boot partion 500M /BOOT (Linux file system)
linux root partition 4G / (linux file system)
Linux swap partition 1G
1x pII 550MHZ 512M RAM
1 x scsi disk drive (only used for linux)
1 x ide hard disk drive (secondary channel/slave)(not used)
1 x floppy drive
1 x ide cdrom
1 x scsi cdrom
note: the scsi disk drive is selected as the default boot device
from within the bios
under the grub device.map file the above devices are seen in the following order
(fd0) floppy
(hd0)Ide disk drive
(hd1) SCSI disk drive
the only way I am able to start linux is to type the following from the grub shell.
Grub>:kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 /root=/dev/sda5
Grub>:initrd /initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
Grub>:boot
I have checked the device.map and menu.lst file and they seem to be ok
my partitions for the scsi drive is configured as follows
linux boot partion 500M /BOOT (Linux file system)
linux root partition 4G / (linux file system)
Linux swap partition 1G
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thanks for your quick response,but I have resolved this problem by doing the following
disabled the IDE disk drive in the bios
rebooted using fedora cd in rescue mode
and ran the following commands
chroot /mnt/sysimage
grub
grub>: root (hd0,0)
grub>: setup (hd0)
quit
grub-install /dev/sda
but now I have another problem
the default cd audio device has changed in the following way
I have 2 cdrom devices installed
1 x scsi(scd0) cdwriter
1 x ide(hdc) cd/dvd player(connected to soundcard)
before the upgrade the ide cdrom was loaded via fstab as the default device,the scsi cdwriter device was not loaded by default.
now when you run any of the following cd audio programs they default to the scsi cdwriter
for the following apps
cdplayer
gnome audio players
kde audio players
i can resolve this by typing the following command
ln -sf hdc cdrom
but the application ripperX still fails to run with permission errors accessing "dev/cdrom"
this also occurs with the root account as well as default user accounts
the fstab is configured as follows
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrecorder pamconsole,ro,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom auto pamconsole,ro,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
any ideas ?
disabled the IDE disk drive in the bios
rebooted using fedora cd in rescue mode
and ran the following commands
chroot /mnt/sysimage
grub
grub>: root (hd0,0)
grub>: setup (hd0)
quit
grub-install /dev/sda
but now I have another problem
the default cd audio device has changed in the following way
I have 2 cdrom devices installed
1 x scsi(scd0) cdwriter
1 x ide(hdc) cd/dvd player(connected to soundcard)
before the upgrade the ide cdrom was loaded via fstab as the default device,the scsi cdwriter device was not loaded by default.
now when you run any of the following cd audio programs they default to the scsi cdwriter
for the following apps
cdplayer
gnome audio players
kde audio players
i can resolve this by typing the following command
ln -sf hdc cdrom
but the application ripperX still fails to run with permission errors accessing "dev/cdrom"
this also occurs with the root account as well as default user accounts
the fstab is configured as follows
/dev/scd0 /media/cdrecorder pamconsole,ro,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom auto pamconsole,ro,exec,noauto,managed 0 0
any ideas ?
