how to create rescue disk - GRUB - Redhat ES 3.0

[gameslover987 at yahoo.com (Dava Peters)]

I don't reach grub. When I reboot the system, it only
show "GRUB" at the end. I know it's MRB bootloader
problem. I need to create rescue disk to reboot and
run grub-install command to reset bootloader.

--
DP


--- Gregory Boyce <gboyce at badbelly.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-04-30 at 12:29, Dava Peters wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > My Redhat ES 3.0 was crash and unable to boot.
> Only
> > show "GRUB". Can anyone help me how to create
> rescue
> > disk? I am using Redhat ES 3.0 with GRUB.
> 
> So you actually get to grub?  if you reach grub, you
> should be able to
> use the grub commandline to boot the system manually
> without a rescue
> disk.  
> 
> Assuming your /boot partition is /dev/hda1 and your
> root partition is
> /dev/hda2, then you should be able to boot by doing
> something like this:
> 
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /KERNELVERSION ro root=/dev/hda2
> initrd /INITRDFILE
> boot
> 
> If /boot is /dev/hda2, then use (hd0,1)
> 
> The nice thing about grub is that it allows file tab
> completion once it
> knows the correct partition to access, so you should
> be able to write
> "kernel /vmlinuz<TAB>" and get a list of valid
> versions.  Then specify
> the initrd file that matches the kernel version.
> 
> 
> 
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