Well the installation goes smoothly... everything goes fine, reboot... then it stalls while booting and puts the text "GRUB" by it and thats it, it sits there

ran the rescue disk, did the grub install stuff, to re-install it... now it boots and says
loading stage 1.5 successful.

Error 17


anyone help ?

Try to boot with rescue disk, and try to run lilo, once you set lilo as a default boot loader, boot with it and check.... if it will boot successfully with lilo, you can change your boot loader to GRUB by login as root user.

Hope this helps.

--Hitesh

I also had problems with GRUB on the first boot off the HD. Did switching to lilo fix your problem?

Yes, It should fix the problem with lilo. once you boot with lilo you can change later on with GRUB.

--Hitesh

Can you tell me the commands?

To run lilo, do i do "lilo-install" ? and then how do i set it to default boot loader? Thanks

MR

I dont have a rescue disk
i tried to load up fedora 2 on my old computer the install worked and now when i first boot up it says "GRUB"

Yes, you do.... or at least, you should. CD 1 (the install CD) of almost every current major distribution can be used as a rescue disk to rescue at the very least the install of the distribution in question.

I'm sorry that I'm not familiar with the Fedora install specifically (I only "know" it insofar as it's presumably like other Anaconda-based installers), but what I would suggest is that you boot from CD 1, and after you choose a language, you should have 3 options: install new (don't want that), upgrade install (keep that as the second choice if the repair doesn't work), and repair installed system (as the CD should detect that Fedora is already installed).

Basically, it sounds like what has happened is that your bootloader didn't install properly, so if there is a 'repair installed system' option, choose 'Repair bootloader', or if that is not an available choice, do an upgrade install and go straight to the bootloader configuration section and reinstall or change your bootloader. You might also go by the official Fedora site, or one of the many unofficial Fedora sites, and see if this is a known problem for Fedora 2, and whether there's a posted workaround.

You might also go by the GRUB homepage and read the manual at http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/ , which I'm sure will offer some clue as to what to do when such an error occurs (i.e., how to reinstall grub from the command line).

Hope this helps.

Thanks This Helps And Now It Works Thankyou So Mutch

Glad to help. Enjoy!