Hello all.
I guess I did a dumb thing when I edited the grub. conf file.
I tried to hash out previous versions of the kernel, but must have hashed out something I should have not.
Now I get a error when trying to boot. This is what is says

"Booting 'Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2179.nptl)'
root (hd0,0)
Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2179.nptl ro root=abel=/ hdc=ide-scsi rhgb
"Error 15: file not found press any key to contiue".
I can do the c to get into a grub command line but don't have a clue what to do in there

How can I get back in the grub conf file to change it back.
By the way, I do not have a floppy drive in this computer...
I tried to use the first install disk for Fedora and the rescue mode, but I don't have a clue how to use this.
Also, it's not showing my the boot directory where the grub. conf file is.
Don't have a clue how to use vi or emacs either...


Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.....

Thanks.
Mitch.

The easies way would be to boot from your fedora cd and type "linux rescue" at the boot screen. Tell it all the stuff and when you get to a command prompg type these two commands

chroot /mnt/sysimage
grub-install /dev/hda

that installs grub to your MBR again...hopefully it doens't use your existing GRUB.conf file though...but hey if it does just go to rescue again and do this

chroot /mnt/sysimage

then edit your grub.conf in a text editor.

edit: I didn't notice you don't know how to use VI...try pico or joe if they are installed (they might come with fedora). If not download jed from
http://www.jedsoft.org/ and install it.

Thanks for the replay vdogvictor, it's appreciated.

I figured it out.

Not good at all with command text editors.(But I'm learning)
What I did was this used the backup copy gedit makes.
Once I got into the grub folder via the rescue fedora disk1, I did this

mv grub.conf~ grub.conf and it worked.

Sure got a lot of practice doing the command line stuff in the last two hours.

Use see, I updated my kernel to 2488 or what ever it was and xf86 didn't work with it and I didn't feel like bothering updating xf86, and if it did work, I'd probably have to update the nvidia driver.
So I did a rpm -e to the new kernel update and had to re edit my xf86 file to get the nvidia working again, which I did.



Thanks for the help...

Mitch

vdogvictor: The other day when I was trying to help someone with a RHL9 grub problem, I tried to run grub-install from linux rescue (RHL9) as you described. It would not run and I assume the same thing would happen under fedora.

You can make a Grub floppy boot disk under linux rescue, since dd does work, and use it to do the grub installation.

Well I have done it before (in fedora) and it definently worked for me...maybe you didn't chroot first or your forgot to put where you want it installed /dev/hda is the MBR of hda and /dev/hda1 would be the superblock of hda1 (i think).

Also if you run update-grub it will make a new menu list in later kernels.Helps me when I can't manually figure out the right syntax to use,david