Re: [WBEL-users] Screwed by a CentOS4 install test
"Ryan Kramer" <[email protected]>
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way too late now, but just for information for anyone else wanting to test other os's, VMware is now 100% free... you can create as many virtual machines on top of a wbel host as you want. (I personally run a dedicated windows guest on top of whitebox, and keep 2 or 3 other vm's active at any one given time for trying out other stuff...) Ryan On 4/18/06, Jack Glendening <[email protected]> wrote: > I think I finally got the correct return address on this one - I > apologize if any duplicates turn up on the list. > > On Monday April 17 2006 12:36, John Morris wrote: > > First step is finding out how much is hosed on hda1. Get into rescue > > mode and do rpm -V on the kernel package and grub. If those are OK > > you can proceed to reinstall it's version of grub back into the MBR > > with grub-install. > > I had sent a followup email to someone who sent a private email telling > me about using Shift-PageUp to read load messages which had scrolled > off the screen, which proved useful. But I should also have posted a > follow up to this list. Sorry. > > Trying to use grub command line prompts based on others' advice was not > working, so I recovered boot control to my "normal" hda1 (with label > /boot) by using my original WBEL 3 disks to install it to an unused > partition while writing the boot loader to hda1 (without reformatting > it). > > I then replaced the grub.conf that produced on hda1 with my old > grub.conf and booting then gave me my WBEL3 kernel load with the > loading errors as before. Scrolling back to read the messages, I > googled on the "duplicate filesystem" error message there, finding it > likely resulting from two partitions having the same name. And indeed > I found two partitions labeled "/", though don't know how that > happened. Renaming the non-WB one got things working again. > So I am mailing this from my normal machine, not my laptop. :-) > > Jack > -- > Dr. John W. (Jack) Glendening Meteorologist > ___ Empowering soaring pilots since 1999 ___ > _______________________________________________ > Whitebox-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://beau.org/mailman/listinfo/whitebox-users >