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Author:  sverre [ Sun May 07, 2006 2:25 am ]
Post subject:  My system boots to GRUB after successful(?) install
Hi!

I have been installing KnoppMyth with a manual install since I am using a SATA drive. I previously hade FC4 and Win XP Pro installed with a dual boot controlled by GRUB.

The install of KnoppMyth claims it was successful even though a filesystem-error shines through the progress-bar during install and a number of error messages is displayed at the end of the install procedure.

Finally, when I boot the system after the successful installation I am beeing prompted with some kind of GRUB command-line tool that I have not seen before. I don't know what to do from here.

It feels like the installation might not have been successful after all, does anyone know how I can verify this? Or is there anything else I can try?

Some info about my setup so fra

I have partitioned my drive inte five partitions. 4 according to the recommendations ( /, swap, /cache and /myth) and a fifth which contains all my media files from my previous setup with FC4.

I don't know how to format these partitions, but I thought this was done automatically during setup. Could that be a reason for my system not booting properly.

As you might see from my post I am a noob. So please be gentle ;-)
Author:  dvpatel [ Sun May 07, 2006 10:35 am ]
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I am in the same boat. I tried three times to do a manual install. Each time, the system just threw a bunch of errors in the end and once I reboot, all I get is a screen with the grub prompt.

The errors comprised of file not found, couldn't copy file etc.

First two times, I had the partitions as:

/dev/hda1 - Dell Diagnostics
/dev/hda2 - 1024MB Swap
/dev/hda3 - rest of the 40GB

Second time, I followed the WiKi instructions more closely and did the following:

/dev/hda1 - Dell Diagnostics
/dev/hda2 - 10GB Bootable Root Partition
/dev/hda3 - 1024MB Swap
/dev/hda4 - Rest of the 40GB drive

No dice. Each time, the install throws errors in the GUI and gives me the # prompt. Once I restart (use shutdown -r now or reboot commands) I only get the grub> prompt.


:(
Author:  cesman [ Sun May 07, 2006 11:58 am ]
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Search for 'mount chroot lilo', ensure you check all.
Author:  sverre [ Sun May 07, 2006 3:49 pm ]
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cheers mate!

I found my answer right here

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=37834&highlight=#37834
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