Server Not Rebooting - Grub

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pluk

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The server had been having problem with anonymous FTP and pulled bandwidth.

Now, we've fixed that problem but on reboot, the server give at very first, a command line :

GRUB

What do I do? What is wrong?
 
Not really a DirectAdmin problem but a generic Linux one.

Sounds like either the MBR or the secondary stage files for GRUB were trashed. You will have to boot from another medium (CDROM/USB Drive/...) and fix the problem from there.
 
Tried rebooting the server from CD1 of the RH set, as a rescue disk.

Tried to reinstall GRUB.

No joy. GRUB told us that /dev/hda wasn't a block device.

Which is weird, because the mount command has no problem mounting it.

We also did a restore with network, and tried to start sshd so I can log in and look at it, but we can't do that either, even though we seeded urandom. It says it starts but it stops immediately.

RHL 9.

Any ideas, anyone?

Jeff
 
You might want to try doing a:
Code: 
cp /proc/mounts /etc/mtab
and try installing again. There is a good page on GRUB problems here It is geared more towards gentoo, but most the problems and soulutions are common to all Linux distros.
 
Conclusion...

Get a new server with CentOS 4.2
The who image was gone so we could no do anything. Nothing was working anymore :( Still on the datas right now. The server is up
 
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