On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 10:58 -0600, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 11:02:41AM -0400, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 10:50 -0400, Ernest L. Williams Jr. wrote:
Somewhere around 70% into the install process some file conflict results and installation halts.
I tried to upgrade to recover my batched install but now all I get is the "grub>" prompt.
Can anyone help me get out of this mess?
If you are really something like 70% done then most likely you do have a bootable if an incomplete system (unless initrd for your kernel was not written yet). Pretty good chance that you have at least a workable text-mode console. The catch is that a grub installation, which means a boot sector among other things, is done close to the very end.
You can do two things. You can boot your system typing boot commands directly at a grub prompt. Start with root(<whatever>) to point to that device where your kernel and initrd reside. grub helps expanding possible choices. See 'info grub' for more information. Once you booted then you can install grub yourself. Check "Installing GRUB natively" section in 'info grub'.
Okay, I did the following: ================================================================== grub> root (hd0,1) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
grub> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2708.fc6 [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x1e6599]
grub> initrd /initrd-2.6.18-1.2708.fc6.img [Linux-initrd @ 0x37ddc000, 0x213a86 bytes]
grub> boot =================================================================
After booting up, I got a console login. Of course, I don't have a login/password. Now, I need to reset the root password. Can I do this from grub as well?
Ultimately, I need to get back to the rescue CD as I will want to do a fresh install. Wow, what a weekend and I am still spending it just for the install. Well, hopefully my experience may help others.
Thanks for all who are helping me get FC6Pre installed. :)
-- Ernest
Other option is to boot from your installation media in a "rescue" mode, use that to get to your disk and install grub on a disk from there.
After that you may proceed with fixing your installation manually. 'yum update' as the first step should at least fill out all missing dependencies.
Michal