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  1. Posted

    I remember having a 386/16 with a (then) massive 4MB of RAM. So we put in 20MB of RAM (unheard of!)- made a 16MB RAM drive and ran everything from RAM - now that was a quick PC!

  3. Posted

    Thank you Dan You are the Man!

     

    Now booting to Grub from the hard disk.

     

    Just two final questions -

     

    If I wanted to, how do I remove the grub loader completely and thus restore the boot to Windows XP only?

     

    And finally

     

    What do you know about Solaris 10?

     

    Thanks again.

  4. Posted

    Hi

    Still not joy. Have tried all the above and many variations but to no avail usually get this far again:

     

    Red Hat nash version 4.1.18 starting

    Mounted /proc filesystem

    Mounting sysfs

    Creating /dev

    Starting udev

    Loading jbd.ko module

    Loading ext3.ko module

    Creating root device

    Mounting root filesystem

    mount: error 6 mounting ext3

    mount: error 2 mounting none

    Switching to new root

    switchroot: mount failed: 22

    umount /initrd/dev failed: 2

    Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

     

    This PC is my main XP machine and needs to work - I have others I am quite happy to mess with and get wrong and thus learn. But this machine has my data on it and I would rather not have to start again! I could back it all up and reinstall but that would be tantamount to admitting defeat!

     

    Soo how do I reconfigure my MBR to work again - the floppy we have made works - so how do I write that to the HDD so that I do not need the floppy to boot from?

  5. Posted

    Right then -

    Mounted Fedora partition and checked version numbers they were correct. Made suggested changes to grub.conf and rebooted.

    It started to boot but soon failed... the last lines were as below:

     

    Red Hat nash version 4.1.18 starting

    Mounted /proc filesystem

    Mounting sysfs

    Creating /dev

    Starting udev

    Loading jbd.ko module

    Loading ext3.ko module

    Creating root device

    Mounting root filesystem

    mount: error 6 mounting ext3

    mount: error 2 mounting none

    Switching to new root

    switchroot: mount failed: 22

    umount /initrd/dev failed: 2

    Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

     

    Rebooting into Red Hat I looked at the grub.conf on the Fedora partition, the only line

    that differed from your suggestion was:

     

    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=1 rhgb quiet

     

    so I tried that - this time Fedora immediately froze with only the lines

     

    Booting 'Fedora Core 3'

     

    root (hd1,2)

    Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet

    [Linux-bzimage, setup-0x1400,size=0x155da5]

    initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img

    [Linux-initrd @ 0x1ff7f000, 0x60e25 bytes]

     

    Uncompressing Linux . . . Ok, booting the kernel.

    audit(1111108441.722:0): initialized

    Red Hat nash version 4.1.18 starting

    mkrootdev: label /1 not found

    mount: error 2 mounting ext3

    mount: error 2 mounting none

    switchroot: mount failed: 22

    umount /initrd/dev failed: 2

    Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!

     

     

    So there you have it!

    I hope this suggests something to you.

     

    We have updated the grub.conf file successfully but only if using the floppy disk.

    How do we write that file to the hard disk?

     

  6. Posted

    Hi again

    A little background may be of use.

    The main installation on this PC is WinXP on 40GB drive C NTFS

    The same drive has partition with an F drive FAT32

    Onto the empty space on this drive I put my first installation of Red Hat which was 2.4.20

    several months ago and that was successful.

    I recently tried to upgrade to 2.6.9 and that was unsuccessful (I will come back to this later)

    but the installation rewrote the grub file successfully ie. on boot the grub would load and selecting either Red Hat 2.4.20 or Windows would work, even 2.6.9 would start to boot but eventually stop with

    a kernel panic. However the non-funtioning of 2.6.9 was never a problem, the rest of the system

    is OK.

    Then a few days ago having added an 80GB hard drive I had space for another OS so I tried to put

    Fedora 3 onto empty space on the 80GB drive and then the problem started.

     

    The default option on the grub menu is Windows XP not original Red Hat

     

    Below is the result of fdisk -l

     

    Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes

    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders

    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

     

     

    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

    /dev/hda1 * 1 3570 28675993+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

    /dev/hda2 3571 4335 6144862+ f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)

    /dev/hda3 4336 4865 4257225 83 Linux

    /dev/hda5 3571 4335 6144831 b Win95 FAT32

     

     

     

    Disk /dev/hdb: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes

    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders

    Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

     

     

    Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

    /dev/hdb1 1 2611 20972826 7 HPFS/NTFS

    /dev/hdb2 ? 2612 5222 20972857+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

    /dev/hdb3 5223 6527 10482412+ 83 Linux

    /dev/hdb4 6528 9964 27607702+ 5 Extended

    /dev/hdb5 6528 6658 1052226 82 Linux swap

     

    Thanks again

  7. Posted

    Hi

    3 cheers for Plan B!

    So I now have a Red Hat floppy disk which offers exactly the same options I had before all this started - as can be seen by the menu.lst file which is below.

    So how do I write that to the hard disk? And how do we configure Fedora to join in?

     

     

     

    # grub .conf generated by Anaconda

    #

    # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes

    to this file.

    # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that

    all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.

    root (hd0,2)

    kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3

    initrd /boot/initrd-version.img

    #boot=/dev/hda

    default=2

    timeout=10

    splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

    title Red Hat Linux (2.6.9)

    . root (hd0,2)

    . kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9. ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi

    . initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9.img

    title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8)

    . root (hd0,2)

    . kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8. ro root=LABEL=/hdc=ide-scsi

    . initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img

    title DOS

    . root noverify (hd0,0)

    . chainloader +1

  8. Posted

    Thanks for responding.

    I do have the original XP and Red Hat disks.

     

    I don't recall the Fedora install asking me where to install Grub, I didn't have to choose between MBR or boot partition, but I do remember it asking what to call the other part of the dual boot process and I accepted the default of "Other".

     

    I did use the Fedora utility to partition. I used expert partitioning and allocated 10GB of existing free space and (when prompted) 1GB for a swap partition.

     

    Alas you are correct I do not have a Red Hat floppy disk!

  9. Posted

     

    The grub is (I think) from the original Red Hat.

     

    The drives are all IDE and are set up as follows:

     

    Primary Master 40GB

    Primary Slave 80GB

    Secondary Master CD-RW

    Secondary Slave DVD-RW

     

    Computer Management reports:

    Disk 0 (C:) 27.35GB NTFS Healthy (System) (F:)5.86 GB FAT32 Healthy 4.06 GB Healthy (Unknown Partition)

     

    Disk 1 (G:)20.00 GB NTFS Healthy (H:)20.00 GB NTFS Healthy 10.00 GB Healthy (Unknown Partition) 1.00GB Healthy (Unknown Partition) 25.33 GB Free Space

     

    The 4.06 GB partition on Disk 0 is the original Red Hat install

    The 10.00GB partition on Disk 1 is where I installed Fedora 3 and the 1.00GB partition is the Swap partition I made for Fedora

     

     

  10. Posted

    Hi

    I have(had!) WInXP and Red Hat 9 happily co-existing and dual-booting using GRUB on my first 40 gb hdd; I added 80 GB as second drive and used half of it, still all fine.

     

    Installed Fedeora 3 from DVD Iso to 10GB partition of unused space on 80GB drive. Installation seemed to go OK - however on reboot after POST PC says "Loading GRUB Stage 2..." and sits there forever.

    If I use The Ultimate Boot CD then I can tell it to make hd0 boot and my WinXP boots fine (phew!).

    I would like to have back my original boot menu choices of Windows, or Red Hat 9 with the addition of the new Fedora 3.

     

    All advice gratefully appreciated.

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