I have a test PC running Fedora 10. Friday evening it was working fine, I have some perl scripts which are scheduled to run every morning.
But when I started work this morning, I found I cannot ping the machine. When I switched on the monitor, I saw the GRUB promt . I am not sure how it got stuck with the GRUB promt.
Now, I dont the the location of the kernel so that I can load it. "boot" command does not work because kernel is not loaded.
Can someone please help me with the questio:-
1) how can I find the absolute location of kernel so that I can load it with "kernel" command
Please let me know if any furthur description is required.
I am not exactly sure why there are seven partitions on the hard disk. The system earlier had windows XP professional installed on it. On my request, the internal IT team, installed Fedora 10 on it for my testing purposes.
Sure, I will try booting with rescue CD and let you know the results.
I have Red Hat 9.0 , Ubuntu 10.04 LST and Fedora 14 on my 2nd HDD,
installed inthe order listed above.
After I installed Ubuntu Red Hat can't be accessed.
The I installed Fedora - which allows me access to Ububtu and my Xp on 1st HDD,
but I still can't access Red Hat.
All linux distros have their own /, /boot, /home, /usr
and share a common swap partition --- /dev/hdb6
After I boot into Ubuntu and upgrade - the grub was also updated overwriting
Fedoras Grub with Ubuntu Grub.
I am now presented with Ubuntus boot menu but can still get into Fedora and XP but no REd Hat.
Wehn I select REd Hat entry it says "file not found" and that "kernel has to be loaded first"...
I have tried various ways to boot RH
1st using menu entry from RH grub as it is and insert into Ubuntu's grub,
doesn't work
then modifying RH grub entry to make it look like how FEdora expects it in
Fedoras boot menu
and then moifying boot menu entry in Ubuntu for REd Hat to conform to Ubuntus style i.e Ubuntru requires UUID for root partition whic I obtained using blkid /dev/hdb7
but again it does't work.
My partitions on 2nd HDD is
1 primary NTFS and 1 extended contained 13 logical partitions
1 /(swap)
3 /boot
3 / (root)
3 /home
3 /usr
as I said I use same /swap for all 3 distros
and thier own boot, root, home. usr partitions
I provide the various grubs below
and finally Ubuntus Grub - only showing relevant menu items
any help will be much appreciated.......
Last edited by pludi; 11-25-2010 at 08:38 AM..
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I think while installing ubuntu you, somewhere, chose to upgrade grub and it wrote on your machines MBR directly through the installer.
Please post the output of the command df -m ; you may run this command from any of the systems (may be even ubuntu) and let me know which disk volume (shown in the command output) refers to the RedHat.
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