Booting redhat always go to grub prompt
 

Dear Linux Experts,

I finally got a Linux Redhat 9 in my PC. The problem is, each time I boot it now it goes to grub> prompt.

It says :

GRUB version 0.93

I cannot remember what I did wrong. Can you help me?

Thanks for your help.

Ben

It looks like you installed grub, but the MBR can't see the grub.conf file on the HD. At this point, I find it simpler to blow away the /boot partition, install a minimal Fedora partition, putting it where you want the /boot partition. Then use that partition. You can then remove the Fedora partition.

because of you haven't /etc/grub/menu.lst.you can create and write by yourself.the following is a very basis grub ment configuration file designed to boot Red Hat Linux :
default=0 #default boot which system
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

# section to load linux
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-5.47)
root (hd0,0) #boot partition
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-5.47 ro root=/dev/hda2
initrd /initrd-2.4.18-5.47.img
of course,you also can boot in the grub prompt.

Is there any reason that you are using Redhat 9?

RH9 was discontinued in 2004, and AFAIK is no longer supported by Fedora Legacy for security updates. May I suggest that you install a more modern distro. If you like Redhat, then go with Fedora Core 6. Alternatively, try Ubuntu.

--Ian

Steve and Cuomei,
Your suggestions might be the answer to my problem. However in my haste, I already re-installed it before reading the forum again. I think the problem is because I installed the kernel in hdc, then later on my friend installed grub, but in hda. There are 2 hard disks, hda and hdc.

IBall,
This is the only CD that my friend has, but yes we definitely will keep up with the latest version. I actually thought RedHat 9 was the newest version.

Ben