[ale] What is grub > and I Killed Access to Desktop

[Marc Ferguson]

Yup; that's the same conclusion I'm coming up with. :'( I wonder what
happened? I've rarely have hardware failures. It used to boot just fine.
When looking for motherboards is there a "linux friendly" board or is that
a myth?


On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 7:41 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> So bootable CD fails, bootable USB fails, hard drive boot fails.
>
> Microcenter would be a next source :-)
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:08 PM, Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Still no luck. I did get "Parted Magic". It has a PXE boot option I can
>> use. The problem I'm having right now is I don't know how to setup the
>> command options. So far I have the following, but it then says it can find
>> RAMDISK. Is anyone familiar with setting this up?
>>
>> /boot/ipxe/ipxe.krn initrd=
>> http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/fedora.redhat/linux/releases/18/Fedora/x86_64/os/images/pxeboot/
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 8:38 PM, Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I downloaded the minimal install (netinstall) ISO to a CD-R for Fedora
>>> 18. I booted my machine and it starts the "plymouth boot screen" (whatever
>>> that is), reaches the "target basic system" and then dumps me into
>>> emergency mode with the following error:
>>>
>>> dracut-initqueue[303]: Warning: Could not boot.
>>> dracut-initqueue[303]: Warning: /dev/root does not exist
>>>
>>> I'm scouring the web now to see what this means. It looks like some
>>> folks got it during beta. I'm also downloading the full DVD ISO to see if
>>> that makes a difference. I crossed my fingers while booting the CD-ROM, it
>>> can be a bit temperamental.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com>wrote:
>>>
>>>> Will do Jack. Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:28 AM, Jack Schneider <puck at dp-indexing.com>wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 08:30:11 -0500
>>>>> Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> > Hi folks,
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I really screwed the pooch on this one. I have two issues: 1) how to
>>>>> > use GRUB recovery console and 2) non-bootable LiveUSB. So; here's my
>>>>> > first issue. I have two hard drives and my original setup was:
>>>>> >
>>>>> > * sda1 - windows (marked as boot)
>>>>> > * sda2 - /boot
>>>>> > * sda3 - lvm (fedora)
>>>>> > * sdb1 - data
>>>>> >
>>>>> > With the release of Fedora 18 I figured I'll finally remove my
>>>>> Windows
>>>>> > partition and turn it into a home directory. I fire up gparted and do
>>>>> > just that. I'm not familiar with UUID so I simply changed the "label"
>>>>> > to "home." I then use rsync to copy my existing /home directory into
>>>>> > the new partition. All seems well...
>>>>> >
>>>>> > I reboot and after GRUB selects the latest instance of Fedora 17 I'm
>>>>> > sent to some sort of recovery mode. I can only log in as root. My
>>>>> > data partition is still mounted, but my newly created home partition
>>>>> > no longer shows any data in it. I wonder if it has something to do
>>>>> > with me changing it from NTFS to ext4.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Either way I'm thinking that my GRUB is pointing to the wrong
>>>>> > partition and stupidly run "grub install /dev/sda1". Now when I
>>>>> > reboot and GRUB fires it immediately goes into a GRUB recovery
>>>>> > console and I'm completely lost at this point.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > At this point I feel I've gone way down into the rabbit hole. I dont'
>>>>> > mind losing the home directories since my data partition is still
>>>>> > functioning. I want to just start fresh and do a clean install of
>>>>> > Fedora 18. My main beef is I can't boot from the newly created Fedora
>>>>> > 18 LiveUSB. It works on my laptop, but not on my desktop. When in
>>>>> > GRUB recovery I ran "grub> usb" and it's supposed to show any USB's
>>>>> > plugged in, but nothing shows up.
>>>>> >
>>>>> Hi, Marc
>>>>>
>>>>> Try  pmagic_2012_12_25,  Free-be! Runs in memory! More tools than ever
>>>>> needed. Looks like Gentoo derivative.  Should allow you to rebuild
>>>>> booting and anything else!.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jack
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>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
>>
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