Maybe boot up a live CD and verify the partitioning is what you thought you had and the contents are as you expect? Also, I note that in one part of the message you refer to hda5 and in another you say the message you got referred to sda5. On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: > 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 > 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" wrote: >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive. - Thomas Jefferson