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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat linux will not boot, boot to grub prompt Post 59918 by hassan2 on Tuesday 4th of January 2005 04:03:01 PM
Old 01-04-2005
linux will not boot, boot to grub prompt

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
partition num:1 filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
partition num:2 filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
partition num:3 filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
partition num:4 filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
partition num:5 filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
partition num:6 filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x83
partition num:7 filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
partition num:8 filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

my boot partition is on 0
so I issued root (hd0,0)

received the error message filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x83

setup (hd0)
checking if /boot/grub/stage1 exist ... no
checking if /grub/stage1 exist ...no

Also try

configfile /boot/grub/grub.conf
Error 15: file not found

configfile /grub/grub.conf
Error 15: file not found

grub> find /boot/vmlinuz
Error 15: file not found

grub> find /boot/initrd.gz
Error 15: file not found

Finally, I tried copy stage1 file and stage2 from an identical machine
to floppy disk then

grub>root (fd0)
error filesystem type unknown, using whole disk
grub>setup (fd0)
error 17, cannot mount selected parttion
grub>quit

can you help, please.
 

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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)
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