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01-18-2008, 07:09 AM
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 GRUB stalls when booting from HDD I am setting up a RH 9.0 system and have managed to get it to a point where it will boot from diskette but not from the hard disk!!!! In the hard disk boot it just displays "GRUB" on the screen and thats it! I presume the MBR is OK as I guess that is where the "GRUB" is coming from (the boot loader). After that I expect it can't find the /boot partition so as to load the grub.conf etc. This may be so but why does the floppy disk boot with no problems at all? Is it less dependent on the partition table than a hard disk based boot? Any ideas on what to check? What are the differences between diskette and hard disk based boot sequences? Cheers, Frank.      |
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01-18-2008, 07:13 AM
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| Re: GRUB stalls when booting from HDD Frank_Hamersley wrote: > I am setting up a RH 9.0 system and have managed to get it to a point where > it will boot from diskette but not from the hard disk!!!! > > In the hard disk boot it just displays "GRUB" on the screen and thats it! > > I presume the MBR is OK as I guess that is where the "GRUB" is coming from > (the boot loader). After that I expect it can't find the /boot partition so > as to load the grub.conf etc. This may be so but why does the floppy disk > boot with no problems at all? Is it less dependent on the partition table > than a hard disk based boot? > > Any ideas on what to check? What are the differences between diskette and > hard disk based boot sequences? Check that it doesn't time out and finish. I had one system which I thought was hanging, but I got a phone call at the right time and after about 15 minutes is completed the boot. It went away after I upgraded the BIOS. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me |
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