[Madlug] Fedora's anaconda hosed my grub

[Douglas A. Whitfield]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 9:45 AM, Leinweber, James <jiml at mail.slh.wisc.edu>wrote:

> Next time you try booting, use "e' for edit, arrow down to the kernel
> line, use "e' for edit again,
> and delete the "quiet splash" arguments,


did that already, only commented it out.


> and press enter to finish the
> edit and "b' to boot.
>  If you are having problems you want the noisiest, most verbose boot you
> can get.  "Crashes
> hard" isn't sufficiently descriptive.


I meant, it cuts power to the machine.


> Does it load the initrd?


In this thread (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=997685) I mention
that it gets to "Running /scripts/init-bottom" then crashes.


> Dropinto busybox?


no


> Fail to find the kernel? Fail to find the root filesystem?  Crash loading a
> device driver?  Different
> symptoms have different solutions.


I don't know the answer to any of those.  It gets to "Running
/scripts/init-bottom" then cuts off.  I haven't had sufficient time to look
into what that means because people on the forum were having me try stuff
with e2fsck...which always failed.


> Your 200 MB sda3 partition is evidently being used as /boot.  Is that
> /boot for both Ubuntu and Fedora shared, or just one of them?
>

Fedora mounts "Filesystem" and "41.9GB Drive", which is the Ubuntu
partition.  When I've been manually mounting and unmounting sda1 that Drive
in Fedora has come up and disappeared, respectively.  I can navigated that
drive through Fedora.  So, I guess they each have their own /boot.

If it's being used for both, you need to change the Ubuntu lines to not
> have the /boot prefix
> and specify (hd0,2), like the Fedora lines.  If /boot is an actual
> Ubuntu directory on sda1,
> rather than a mount point, then the Ubuntu lines look superficially OK.
> If you mount sda1
> in Ubuntu do the kernel and initrd files actually exist in
> /mount/sda1/boot/*2.6.27-7* like
> they should?
>

I think so.  I have in that dir

abi-2.6.27*
config-2.6.27*
grub
initrd.img-2.6.27.7*
memtest86+.bin
System.map-2.6.27.7*
vmcoreinfo-2.6.27.7*
vmlinuz-2.6.27.7*

Thanks for the help!  I'll look into that init-bottom now.
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