Dear All,
I am quite new to centos
i had installed centos 5.2 to be as a squid proxy server and it was working fine for over a month or so
but 3 days back the machine after a reboot jus refused to boot
it jus was goin to the grub prompt
i wd really apprecite if someone cd help me ..
cd i boot from centos boot cd n go to rescue mode and check grub
2) if grub is OK how cd i reinstall centos without destroying data
3) any other tps to check out the problem cd be highly apprecited
regards
Fabian
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 7:31 AM, fabian dacunha fabian@baladia.gov.kw wrote:
Dear All,
I am quite new to centos
i had installed centos 5.2 to be as a squid proxy server and it was working fine for over a month or so
but 3 days back the machine after a reboot jus refused to boot
it jus was goin to the grub prompt
Which one?
i wd really apprecite if someone cd help me ..
cd i boot from centos boot cd n go to rescue mode and check grub
Yes, but you probably need to provide more info to get the right answers.
- if grub is OK how cd i reinstall centos without destroying data
Let's take it one step at a time.
mhr
dear All.
Sorry for my earlier mail which i was not able to explain correctly
as i said b4 i had installed centos 5.2 to be as a squid proxy server and it was working fine for over a month or so but 3 days back the machine after a reboot jus refused to boot.
after the post it tries to boot and the screen jus dispaly the below message
GNU Grub version 0.97 [Minimal Bash like line editing is supported .....
guess grub cant find the OS file ..
how could i possible go about this
would really apprecite your help n suggestions
regards
Fabian
once again sorry for my earlier email
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 7:31 AM, fabian dacunha fabian@baladia.gov.kw wrote:
Dear All,
I am quite new to centos
i had installed centos 5.2 to be as a squid proxy server and it was working fine for over a month or so
but 3 days back the machine after a reboot jus refused to boot
it jus was goin to the grub prompt
Which one?
i wd really apprecite if someone cd help me ..
cd i boot from centos boot cd n go to rescue mode and check grub
Yes, but you probably need to provide more info to get the right answers.
- if grub is OK how cd i reinstall centos without destroying data
Let's take it one step at a time.
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On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 12:31 +0300, fabian dacunha wrote:
dear All.
Sorry for my earlier mail which i was not able to explain correctly
as i said b4
Correct English really would not take that much more effort as compared to texting shortcuts, and would make it more likely that you might get the help you are requesting.
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#writewell
The entire article is worth a read.
i had installed centos 5.2 to be as a squid proxy server and it was working fine for over a month or so but 3 days back the machine after a reboot jus refused to boot.
after the post it tries to boot and the screen jus display the below message
GNU Grub version 0.97 [Minimal Bash like line editing is supported .....
guess grub cant find the OS file ..
how could i possible go about this
would really apprecite your help n suggestions
At the risk of sounding even MORE pedantic, many would appreciate it if you ran a spell-checker as well. (Grammar checkers seem to be beyond the state-of-the-art in email clients.) :D
The GRUB shell is quiet powerful and can help in debugging your problems. If you do not have a /boot partition try:
grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
If you do have a boot partition try
grub> find /grub/stage1
This should give you a clue as to what GRUB thinks the disk layout is. This could have changed due to BIOS settings, hardware changes, or hardware failures.
You might also try:
grub> find /etc/fstab
This should be on the root partition /.
Grub command-line completion can help in re-constructing missing/incorrect boot stanzas.
You can find out a lot more with "info grub" on a running system.
Do some more debugging and post what you have tried and your results (per ESR's advice above) if unable to figure it out for yourself.
Good luck, Phil
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 at 9:35pm, Phil Schaffner wrote
At the risk of sounding even MORE pedantic, many would appreciate it if you ran a spell-checker as well. (Grammar checkers seem to be beyond the state-of-the-art in email clients.) :D
The GRUB shell is quiet powerful and can help in debugging your
^^^^^ Thus conforming to the rule that every spelling flame must contain at least one typo of its own -- well done! ;)
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 at 9:35pm, Phil Schaffner wrote
At the risk of sounding even MORE pedantic, many would appreciate it if you ran a spell-checker as well. (Grammar checkers seem to be beyond the state-of-the-art in email clients.) :D
The GRUB shell is quiet powerful and can help in debugging your
^^^^^Thus conforming to the rule that every spelling flame must contain at least one typo of its own -- well done! ;)
At least it was a correctly spelled typo. Still need that grammar checker!!! Who's working on putting on in Thunderbird? Evolution?
:-}
Phil
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 08:31 -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote:
Phil Schaffner wrote:
At least it was a correctly spelled typo. Still need that grammar checker!!! Who's working on putting on in Thunderbird? Evolution?
s/on/one/ - before someone else jumps on me :-)
He-he! So you meant "Who's working one putting on in Thun..."? >:-) <snip sig stuff>
I've done similar soooo many times. Grab another cup of your favorite stimulant. :-)
on 10-30-2008 5:31 AM Phil Schaffner spake the following:
Phil Schaffner wrote:
At least it was a correctly spelled typo. Still need that grammar checker!!! Who's working on putting on in Thunderbird? Evolution?
s/on/one/ - before someone else jumps on me :-)
I have to read my outgoing mails twice before I hit send! ;-D
try
root (hd0,0) configfile /boot/grub/grub.conf or configfile /etc/grub.conf boot
it should boot if unable to load the grub config file or try to manually define the root , vmlinuz and initrd paramaters and boot.
Eg: root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.19.1 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.19.1.img
boot
On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 11:49 -0700, MHR wrote:
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 7:31 AM, fabian dacunha fabian@baladia.gov.kw wrote:
Dear All,
I am quite new to centos
i had installed centos 5.2 to be as a squid proxy server and it was working fine for over a month or so
but 3 days back the machine after a reboot jus refused to boot
it jus was goin to the grub prompt
Which one?
i wd really apprecite if someone cd help me ..
cd i boot from centos boot cd n go to rescue mode and check grub
Yes, but you probably need to provide more info to get the right answers.
- if grub is OK how cd i reinstall centos without destroying data
Let's take it one step at a time.
mhr _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
cd i boot from centos boot cd n go to rescue mode and check grub
could you please use entire words instead of txt talking? In this sentence you use "cd" to mean "could" and "compact disc." It's very confusing and when you make people's brains hurt reading your message, we're not very inclined to waste our time.
On a computer you have access to a full keyboard. Please use it and stop being lazy.
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