my redhat 9 will not boot. We had a power failure and when the power came back, my redhat linux will not boot.
The machine come up to grub prompt.
I tried the following from grub prompt
root (hd0, then press tab key
partition num:0 filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x83... (7 Replies)
I have a x4200 m2 that I've installed Solaris 10 on. I've created a raid 1 mirror using disk0 and disk1. I'm trying to add the mirror bootblk to the grub menu so in case of a failure of disk0, I can simply boot from the mirrored disk1. I'm looking for the syntax to add the alternate boot path to... (5 Replies)
I dont know what the heck happen but one of our DBAs was working on a cluster for oracle. Rebooted the box and viola, the OS won't load. After the POST message, I get a blinking cursor on the upper left hand corner. Doesn't even say "GRUB" or anything, it just blinks.
I tried going into rescue... (1 Reply)
Hi guys.
I have installed Acronis disk director in windows XP and allocate some free space to install Debian beside fedora.
after completion i rebooted and now grub is in command line mode and does not show the menu list.
(I didn't remove the fedora partition. I just allocate some space from... (1 Reply)
Hi there,
I had a double boot of Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04. After messing up with UBUNTU I reinstalled it. But then Grub did not noticed the existence of my windows and it just boot into linux. I booted with windows 7 installation CD which noticed a problem with my booting and suggest to repair... (2 Replies)
After installing centos iam not able to see the terminal icon in the applications menu to launch the command prompt in Centos.
However iam able to see the Open Terminal menu, when i right click and it is not working.
let me know what are the things i need to check.:b: (1 Reply)
hello guys!
i found this thread
on the internet and registered right here in this community.
on a USB-drive i installed Debian. boot manager is GRUB 2 (1.99) . in a folder within my Debian i have some ISO-images of some linux-distros and other live-systems. one of these is Parted Magic,... (0 Replies)
Hi Solaris 10 Experts,
I am wondering what is the correct syntax to edit in Grub when trying to specify the local ZFS boot disk while booting up from a Solaris 10 x86 64bits DVD installation disk. In other word, I try to boot up from local disk without removing the Solaris installation disk... (0 Replies)
The quick & dirty question I have is... What app/script actually loads the Grub 2 menu system? And where is it located?
The longer question is I understand the core.img is loaded onto the first 63 sectors (stage 1.5) and after it loads I starts the stage 2 Grub bootloader which loads the Menu... (0 Replies)
I installed x86 Solaris 10 update 10 after Windows XP, later I removed xp and installed Debian 9 stretch on the same partition but, Debian couldn't find any other os so it deleted Solaris 10 grub or did something like that I couldn't got.
I thought I would be able to recover the lost record by... (0 Replies)
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LEARN ABOUT LINUX
grub-setup
GRUB-SETUP(8) System Administration Utilities GRUB-SETUP(8)NAME
grub-setup - set up a device to boot using GRUB
SYNOPSIS
grub-setup [OPTION...] DEVICE
DESCRIPTION
Set up images to boot from DEVICE.
You should not normally run this program directly. Use grub-install instead.
-a, --allow-floppy
Make the drive also bootable as floppy (default for fdX devices). May break on some BIOSes.
-b, --boot-image=FILE
Use FILE as the boot image [default=boot.img]
-c, --core-image=FILE
Use FILE as the core image [default=core.img]
-d, --directory=DIR
Use GRUB files in the directory DIR [default=/boot/grub]
-f, --force
Install even if problems are detected
-m, --device-map=FILE
Use FILE as the device map [default=/boot/grub/device.map]
-r, --root-device=DEV
Use DEV as the root device [default=guessed]
-s, --skip-fs-probe
Do not probe for filesystems in DEVICE
-v, --verbose
Print verbose messages.
-?, --help
give this help list
--usage
give a short usage message
-V, --version
print program version
Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options.
DEVICE must be an OS device (e.g. /dev/sda).
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <bug-grub@gnu.org>.
SEE ALSO grub-install(8), grub-mkimage(1), grub-mkrescue(1)
The full documentation for grub-setup is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and grub-setup programs are properly installed at
your site, the command
info grub-setup
should give you access to the complete manual.
grub-setup (GRUB) 1.99-12ubuntu5 October 2011 GRUB-SETUP(8)
05-26-2010
