• Boot the system from an installation boot medium.
• Type linux rescue at the installation boot prompt to enter the rescue environment.
• Type chroot /mnt/sysimage to mount the root partition.
• Type /sbin/grub-install /dev/hda to reinstall the GRUB boot loader, where /dev/hda is the boot partition.
• Review the /boot/grub/grub.conf file, as additional entries may be needed for GRUB to control additional operating systems.
• Reboot the system.

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To convert an ext2 file system to ext3, log in as root and type:
/sbin/tune2fs -j
where is an appropriate file system such as /dev/hda6

After doing this, change the partition type from ext2 to ext3 in the /etc/fstab file for that partition.

Note: If you are converting your root file system, you must use an initrd image (or RAM disk) to boot. To create this, run the mkinitrd program. For information on using the mkinitrd command, type man mkinitrd. Also, make sure your GRUB configuration loads the initrd. If you fail to make this change, the system still boots, but the file system is mounted as ext2 instead of ext3.

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[root@root /boot/grub]# ls -la grub.conf menu.lst
-rw——- 1 root root 1037 Oct 28 11:41 grub.conf
lrwxr-xr-x 1 root root 11 Jan 1 2003 menu.lst -> ./grub.conf
If grub.conf does not exist then simply edit menu.lst which should be a file instead of a symlink to grub.conf.

Here is an example configuration:

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.4.21-37.EL)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-37.EL ro root=/dev/hda3
initrd /initrd-2.4.21-37.EL.img
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.4.21-32.0.1.EL)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL ro root=/dev/hda3
initrd /initrd-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL.img
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.4.21-27.0.4.EL)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-27.0.4.EL ro root=/dev/hda3
initrd /initrd-2.4.21-27.0.4.EL.img
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.4.21-27.0.2.EL)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-27.0.2.EL ro root=/dev/hda3
initrd /initrd-2.4.21-27.0.2.EL.img
The default line is the line we want to change. The first title is 0. So if I wanted title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.4.21-27.0.2.EL) to be the default kernel I would set defualt= to 4.
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=4
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.4.21-37.EL)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-37.EL ro root=/dev/hda3
initrd /initrd-2.4.21-37.EL.img
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.4.21-32.0.1.EL)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL ro root=/dev/hda3
initrd /initrd-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL.img
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.4.21-27.0.4.EL)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-27.0.4.EL ro root=/dev/hda3
initrd /initrd-2.4.21-27.0.4.EL.img
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES (2.4.21-27.0.2.EL)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-27.0.2.EL ro root=/dev/hda3
initrd /initrd-2.4.21-27.0.2.EL.img

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