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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 ---

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 ---

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Have you tried reinstalling grub? grub-install re-writes the MBR to the
drive. OTOH, I'm not sure you can use semicolons to comment stuff in
grub.conf..?

cya,
Eric

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 06:34:48 -0700, Lije Bailey typed:

> 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.

<snip>

According to the information you supplied from both your fdisk and
grub.conf, you Red Hat Linux hard drive is hdc and not hdb. Your grub.conf
file supplies the clue you need.

Try the using following modified lines in your /boot/grub/grub.conf file;

Use the pound sign to comment out the line not the semi-colon.

# splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

Use the hard drive partition and not the partition label.

kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=/dev/hdc5 hdd=ide-scsi


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