Fedora core 7 boot problems

[dawn]

Hello,

Iam kinda new on this forum although ive been registered for quite some time.

I reasently installed Fedora core 7 from an dvd iso, i checked the dvd before installing linux using the cd/dvd check "program" just before the installation and it passed flawless.

I installed fedora core 7 as basic as possible (i think!!) on a removable 10 gig harddisk because the dual boot didn't work out for me.

After the installation it discard the dvd and there is one option: reboot, so i press reboot and take te dvd out of the player. So far so good, then the pc reboots and boots from ? linux i think. This is where i get stuck, i get an announcemend:

[ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB
lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
completions of a device/filename. ]

grub>

I searched a bit on this and came to the conclusion linux isn't booting at all. So i found a howto for newbies (iam a big one so i click on it ) this is the link:

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Fix_Grub_it_can't_find_a_kernel

I tried the 2 possible things that are discribed there but no luck.

I really want to learn working with linux because windows is so crappy and cpu stressed that the only thing that is working fine are games, and internet. One of my hobbies is 3d drawing...no not possible windows just isn't capable of letting other programs get any cpu to play with (in a matter of speach ofcourse windows isn't all that crappy but i hear allot that linux is more...well better)

My question is: how do i get rid of that announcemend and let my pc boot linux Fedora core 7??

Kind regards,

Dawn

[devils casper]

Hi and Welcome !

Try to reinstall GRUB. Boot up from Fedora Installation CD/DVD and select rescue mode.
It will drop you at shell prompt after asking a few questions. Execute this

chroot /mnt/sysimage
grub-install /dev/sda --recheck
exit 
exit

In case it doesn't work, boot up in rescue mode again and execute this

fdisk -l

Post output here.

[dawn]

Thanks for the reaction.

I tried it but it still doesn't work.
This was the comment:

Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
/dev/sda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive.

fdisk -1 was an unreconised command.

What did i do wrong?

[devils casper]

fdisk -l

Its small L.

[dawn]

Tried it again and now i got result!

After the first command line: grub grub grub grub on and on after reboot.

Then i typed fdisk -l and got:

disk /dev/sde 10,0 gb blabla bites

device boot start end Id system
/dev/sde1 * 1 13 83 Linux
/dev/sde2 14 1216 8e Linux LVM

So i hope you guys can help me with this information

DaWn

[devils casper]

GRUB has assigned /dev/sde device name to your HD. Boot up in rescue mode again and execute this

chroot /mnt/sysimage
grub-install /dev/sde  --recheck
exit
exit

[dawn]

Doesn't work, then i get :

Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub Grub

and so on, it never stops then...

I think the cod isn't good:

grub-install /dev/sda --recheck only it is :

grub-install /dev/sde --recheck ??

[devils casper]

Aren't you booting up in Rescue Mode? Does grub-install command throw any error?
In case nothing works, download SuperGRUB CD, boot from it. Select 'Fix Linux Boot Loader ( GRUB )' from the list.

[dawn]

I used SuperGRUB cd and i finnaly got something usefull: booting up after reinstalling grub stuff (i don't understand much of it but i tried hard to reinstall )

booting up :

grub loading stage1.5

grub loading, please wait
ERROR 2

Sorry iam such an burden

[devils casper]

GRUB Error 2 : "Selected disk doesn't exist" This error is returned if the device part of a device- or full filename refers to a disk or BIOS device that is not present or not recognized by the BIOS in the system.

Something is wrong with device naming only. Check the output of fdisk -l command. Is it still using /dev/sde name?