The system works just fine now. I think there was a disk check or something at boot time which takes 15-20 minutes (I rarely reboot the system once or twice a year), and it made me think that the system does not boot.
Thanks for your help.
Bunyamin.
2011/9/8 Bünyamin İzzet bunyamin.izzet@gmail.com
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 8:11 AM, Devin Reade gdr@gno.org wrote:
Bünyamin Ýzzet bunyamin.izzet@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Devin Reade gdr@gno.org wrote:
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# grub grub> device (hd0) /dev/sdb grub> root (hd0,0) grub> setup (hd0) grub> quitIt still does not boot. I could not see the error message, because it is
a
dedicated server and I am not sitting at the monitor of the server. So I type the lines in grub.conf manually to see the error (I'm not sure if
it is
the right thing to see the error).
If you mean that you typed the lines I gave above into grub.conf, then that was not what was intended (and I doubt that it would work). My intent was that you get the system booted and running normally (perhaps via the rescue disk), and after that execute 'grub' interactively and issue those commands.
Devin
As you said, I booted the system via rescue disk, and execute grub and issue those commands. Then, I reboot the system, but it does not boot.
Then I searched on google about logging grub errors, which I could not find anything useful (meybe I did not look enough). So that, in rescue system, I execute grub and type commands in grub.conf (results are below) to see which error occurs.
# grub Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory)
[ 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> root (hd1,0) root (hd1,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0xfd grub> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-238.19.1.el5 ro root=/dev/md1 vga=0x317
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-238.19.1.el5 ro root=/dev/md1 vga=0x317 [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x1fe01c] grub> initrd /initrd-2.6.18-238.19.1.el5.img
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-238.19.1.el5.img
Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory grub> quit quit