Re: Using VMWare 2.0.2
- From: "Alessandro Vercelli" <alever@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "robertgfreeman" <robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:40:31 +0100
To enable grub, these steps could work:
1.After booting the media in rescue mode, let the procedure search an existing
RHEL installation
2. If an RHEL installation is found, it should be mounted under /mnt/sysmage
and a shell is prompted
3. Code: chroot /mnt/sysimage
Now the RHEL installation is mounted in current environment
4. Check your local disk with fdisk -l
5. Code: grub-install <device>
<device> is the device-name (/dev/<some_device>) of the harddisk which contains
the root partition; example: if root partition is /dev/sda2, then run
grub-install /dev/sda
Unfortunately, without knowing what disks/partiotions are in the VM, my
suggestions make a lot of assumptions, but the worst you could obtain is a VM
that needs a reinstallation (which is already your most probable choise,
actually...:))).
Good work,
Alessandro
>When installing I did not enable GRUB, so I'm thinking that would not be an
>issue.
>I'm going to install with VMWare 1 tonight and see if that fixes the problem.
>
>RF
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>From: dave <david.best@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx
>Cc: Alessandro Vercelli <alever@xxxxxxxxx>; oracle-l <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Tue, November 24, 2009 10:07:40 AM
>Subject: Re: Using VMWare 2.0.2
>
>I've had issues with grub not picking up the right boot partition..
>if you can boot with your the install media and see it, then check
>your /boot/grub/grub.conf file and verify its looking at the partition
>you specified to be the boot partition when you did the install.
>
>Not sure how familiar with grub but here is a clip. You want to be
>looking at the root(hd0,0) line. The below says to boot from the
>first partition of the first drive.
>
>title Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (2.6.9-78.0.1.ELhugemem)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-78.0.1.ELhugemem ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
> initrd /initrd-2.6.9-78.0.1.ELhugemem.img
>
>
>On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Robert Freeman
><robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> This is RH 5. I'm pretty sure this is not a RH boot issue but rather a
>> VMWare issue.
>> I'll try the boot with the media/rescue option and see what happens tonight.
>>
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