New fedora core 6 installation, messed up grub

abstracted · 05-01-2007, 07:11 PM

Hello, i installed zod today, but grub does not seem to exist (or so it seems) ill finish installation and rebot but it just goes strait into windows xp. any ideas? i have very little experience with linux so bare with me. both installations are on seperat drives

dxqcanada · 05-01-2007, 08:00 PM

It sounds like grub was not installed in the MBR of the primary hard drive.

squidhm3 · 05-04-2007, 06:09 PM

Just installed FC6 today, all went well until I rebooted - GRUB gives me error 15 which appears to be a partition issue (i.e. incomplete info) - I noticed after booting into rescue mode that /boot/grub/grub.conf DID NOT exist (I chose the default partition layout suggested by FC6, using /dev/hdb1 as a 100MB boot partition and the rest of that drive as a logical volume.

Going to keep searching, just thought I'd post this in the event someone else has run into..

yprahalad · 05-06-2007, 10:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by squidhm3

Just installed FC6 today, all went well until I rebooted - GRUB gives me error 15 which appears to be a partition issue (i.e. incomplete info) - I noticed after booting into rescue mode that /boot/grub/grub.conf DID NOT exist (I chose the default partition layout suggested by FC6, using /dev/hdb1 as a 100MB boot partition and the rest of that drive as a logical volume.

Going to keep searching, just thought I'd post this in the event someone else has run into..

Similar problem. I installed Fedora Core % on a Dyual Boot machine with Windows on the Primary and Fedora on the slave derive. Everything went fine. When I rebooted I get teh grub command mode screen. I do not get the Menu mode. As I know nothing about GRUB commands.. some problem! How do I get into the menu mode. I tried control, esc and just c. Does not work. Can some one suggest a solution?
Thanks
Prahalad

chromesymph · 05-09-2007, 08:58 PM

I just installed Fedora Core 6, and the installation went fine, but it doesn't boot.

When I cut on the computer all I get is a flashing underscore.

squidhm3 · 05-10-2007, 07:23 AM

Ended up ditching this and installing Fedora 7, problem solved. Might wanna try that even though it's still in beta. Never did find a fix for this...