Hello All,

I am having a very frustrating chain of problems...

I have a dual boot box running Redhat 9 and windowsXP. Was all working well before I
fiddled with it!

First I was trying to install the drivers for my new usb wireless adaptor and having
no sucess at all.

So I decided I was using an old kernel 2.4.20-8 and it was time to update to
2.4.20-30.9. I have used yum to upgrade a couple of other things and it went fine, so
I decided to do it with

yum update kernel*

downloaded and installed the kernel and kernel source but when I went to restart the
comp. I got the grub 0.93 prompt, to which I could not boot anything. Luckily I had
made a 2.4.20-8 boot image disk, so i could still get back into redhat with the bootdisk.

I noticed the /boot/grub/grub.conf file was completely empty, which I found strange. I tried to rewrite it manually, but everytime I reboot I just get "GRUB GRUB" at the top left hand corner of the screen, and then nothing happens?

XP runs on the first harddrive hda or hd0

the linux /boot dir. is on hdb (hd1) on the 2nd partition, I believe.

this is my /boot/grub/grub.conf
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#my rewritten grub file of 28th march 2004

default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd1,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Redhat Linux (2.4.20-8)
root (hd1,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdb=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img

title Redhat Linux (2.4.20-30.9)
root (hd1,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-30.9 ro root=LABEL=/ hdb=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.20-30.9.img

title Windows XP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

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output from /boot/grub/device.map

# this device map was generated by anaconda
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/hda
(hd1) /dev/hdb

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output from df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb3 12G 7.1G 3.9G 65% /
/dev/hdb2 99M 15M 80M 16% /boot
none 251M 0 251M 0% /dev/shm

----

I have been trying by trial and error to get the grub.conf settings right, but it is driving me crazy!!

Can anybody help??

Thanks in advance

Lucas

ro root=LABEL=/ hdb=ide-scsi


I dont believe hdb=ide-scsi belongs in front of your LABEL=/ tag.

so make it:

kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/

only?

Thanks

Lucas

yes, or kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 hdb=ide-scsi ro root=LABEL=/

may fix it.

ok tried that, and I then I got

GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB

come up on the top left corner at boot time, then no action??

Thanks

Lucas