grub reboot issue

After resizing my disk space, the linux fedora 9 rebooted into Grub> by
default. I booted into rescue mode but cannot find anything wrong with
fstab and grub.conf file.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Peter wrote:
> After resizing my disk space, the linux fedora 9 rebooted into Grub> by
> default. I booted into rescue mode but cannot find anything wrong with
> fstab and grub.conf file.
>
> Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

I haven't run into this particular problem with Grub, but the usual
story with boot loaders is that they need to pull a few blocks off disk
by absolute block number. It is likely that in resizing your disk you
moved some of these blocks. (Re-)run grub-install from rescue mode.
Rescue mode should mount your root file system, and you can use chroot
as suggested.

On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:30:35 -0700, Peter wrote:

> After resizing my disk space, the linux fedora 9 rebooted into Grub> by
> default. I booted into rescue mode but cannot find anything wrong with
> fstab and grub.conf file.
>
> Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Yes. Post your old and current fstab, old and new cat /proc/partitions
or df -h or fdisk -l and your current grub.conf. Gotta start somewhere.

Stef

Allen McIntosh wrote:
> Peter wrote:
>> After resizing my disk space, the linux fedora 9 rebooted into Grub>
>> by default. I booted into rescue mode but cannot find anything wrong
>> with fstab and grub.conf file.
>>
>> Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
>
> I haven't run into this particular problem with Grub, but the usual
> story with boot loaders is that they need to pull a few blocks off disk
> by absolute block number. It is likely that in resizing your disk you
> moved some of these blocks. (Re-)run grub-install from rescue mode.
> Rescue mode should mount your root file system, and you can use chroot
> as suggested.


This may be a symptom that Grub does not find
its configuration file *from the boot partition*.

The proper way to use Grun is to have the config
file on the /boot partition, and the /etc entry
symlinked to it.

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Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio (at) iki fi