[WBEL-users] Screwed by a CentOS4 install test

[Ryan Kramer]

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 <whitebox_glendeni at drjack.info> 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
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