I have made some progress.... When I use these parameters at the grub
prompt, the machine boots. X is dead, and so is mysql...not sure why, yet.
However, I cannot change menu.lst to reboot....I always get tossed out to
the grub menu.

grub> root(hd0,msdos5)      //msdos5 comes from tab completion and is the
only option
grub> linux /boot/linux-2.6.21.1-686 root=/dev/hda5
grub> initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.21.1-686
grub>boot

Any thoughts or suggestions?

Thanks,

Mark

On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Mark Phillips
<mark@phillipsmarketing.biz>wrote:

> Now I have grub 1.98 installed, but no change. Still go straight to the
> grub prompt, and when I try the aforementioned grub commands I get these
> results:
>
> 2.2.26: cant read the initrd file
> 2.2.22: waiting for root file system
>
> The wait timed out, and got this error: /dev/sda5 does not exist.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Mark
> On Mar 28, 2011 2:34 PM, "Kevin Fries" <kfries6@gmail.com> wrote:
>