Recover Redhat Linux 4 Grub Boot loader [Minimal Bash-like line editing is supported]

yasir.iqbal · 08-30-2020, 06:12 AM

Dear All,
I am trying to recover grub book loader on RHEL 4 update 2 through redhat 6 rescure disk. Redhat 4 installed on LVM disk. The rescue disk could not mount the local hardisk iamge in /mnt/sysimage. I have to manually mounted it through the command given below.

# lvm vgchange -a y volgroup1
# mount /dev/mapper/volgroup-rootvol
# chroot /mnt/sysimage
# grub-install /mnt/sysimage
after that command i recived the attached error. Pleae help me to solve this error.

berndbausch · 08-30-2020, 06:40 AM

I'd say RHEL 6 grub-install doesn't work with RHEL 4 libraries.

I don't know about RHEL, but http://vault.centos.org/ has the entire history of ISOs starting with 2.1. I'd download the appropriate Centos 4 ISO and try recovering your system with it.

colorpurple21859 · 08-30-2020, 12:43 PM

after manually mounting to sysimage, I think you also need to run the following commands:

Code:

mount --bind /dev /sysimage/dev
mount --bind /proc /sysimage/proc
mount --bind /sys /sysimage/sys
mount -o bind /run /sysimage/run
chroot /sysimage

TB0ne · 08-30-2020, 03:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yasir.iqbal

Dear All,
I am trying to recover grub book loader on RHEL 4 update 2 through redhat 6 rescure disk. Redhat 4 installed on LVM disk. The rescue disk could not mount the local hardisk iamge in /mnt/sysimage. I have to manually mounted it through the command given below.

Code:

# lvm vgchange -a y volgroup1
# mount /dev/mapper/volgroup-rootvol
# chroot /mnt/sysimage
# grub-install /mnt/sysimage

after that command i recived the attached error. Pleae help me to solve this error.

You've been a member here ten years now..and you have never followed up in ANY of your previous threads:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ualbox-806743/
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...wn-4175649230/
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...h-ldap-807801/
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...re-4175660764/

You are using a very, VERY old copy of RHEL, and you're using another old version to try to rescue it. You have not provided any details about your hardware, but the bad ELF interpreter may indicate that you're using a 64 bit program on a 32 bit system...which will not work. RHEL 4 was both 32 and 64 bit...6 was not. I'd suggest you stop where you are, and load the CURRENT version of RHEL (after paying for support), or load the current CentOS. Restore your data from backup.