[ale] reboot problem

Jonathan Glass jonathan.glass at ibb.gatech.edu
Wed Aug 20 21:46:25 EDT 2003


Should be.  WHen the RH rescue mode comes up, the instructions tell you
how to manipulate the system in a chroot environment.  It should be that
easy, though.

I don't have a linux box here to test this on, but this is how I've done
in the past.

Thanks
Jonathan


> 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]
> 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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