Topic: Newbee. I am stuck in GRUB!

[Thostrup]

Installed first SME server 6.5. It It could not finish due to an error. Then i installed the Alpha 7 version and went for an upgrade and everything went well. After restart it only loads GRUB. Found out that I have to define root and kernel before going further. What is the right procedure for manual loading from grub. It seems that the Alpha 7 version is CentOS based. What shall I do?

[KegRaider]

Boot from a rescue disc of some sort....I like my gentoo disc for that.

at the bash prompt type the following
#grub

grub> root (hd0,0)  
grub> setup (hd0)          
grub> quit

What we have done here is...Specify where your /boot partition resides, Install GRUB in the MBR, and Exit the GRUB shell.

NOW... you have to edit your /boot/grub/grub.conf, so type the following.

# vi /boot/grub/grub.conf

# Which listing to boot as default. 0 is the first, 1 the second etc.
default 0
# How many seconds to wait before the default listing is booted.
timeout 5
# Nice, fat splash-image to spice things up
# Comment out if you don't have a graphics card installed
# splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title=Linux
# Partition where the kernel image (or operating system) is located
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kernelname root=/dev/hda3


I hope this helps a little, but, I thought SME used Lilo?

KegRaider.

[CharlieBrady]

Installed first SME server 6.5. It It could not finish due to an error. Then i installed the Alpha 7 version and went for an upgrade and everything went well. After restart it only loads GRUB. Found out that I have to define root and kernel before going further. What is the right procedure for manual loading from grub. It seems that the Alpha 7 version is CentOS based. What shall I do?

The only reason for using the alpha version is to find problems, and report them to the developers so that they can be fixed. The place to report problems is the bug tracker found via a link from http://smeserver.sourceforge.net/.

[MSmith]

Sounds like you need to wipe your hard drive completely including the MBR and start from scratch.  If you're just playing around try the latest 7.0 alpha or 6.5 RC1, otherwise stick to 6.01-01.