I've installed Red Hat 9 on my system, mostly successfully. The
current major bug is that the system will not boot from the hard
drive, though it does boot from the Red Hat boot disk that I made
during installation.

The system goes through POST, then displays a text-mode blank black
screen with a blinking cursor. The only change I have made to the Grub
bootloader configuration is to comment out the splashimage line,
thinking I had some funky video card issues. No dice.

I have two hard drives. hda is loaded with Win98. hdb is devoted to
Red Hat. Partition information (from fdisk) and the grub.conf file
listed below.

Any help gratefully accepted...

LB

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Disk partition info:

Disk /dev/hda: 3243 MB, 3243663360 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 419 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 419 3167608+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)

Disk /dev/hdc: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 5310 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 * 1 14 105808+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdc2 15 5310 40037760 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdc5 15 1401 10485688+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdc6 1402 1470 521608+ 82 Linux swap

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Grub.conf:

# 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 (hd1,0)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hdc5
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
;splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdd=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img
title DOS
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

--- end grub.conf ---