Re: Linux boot stops at GRUB.

On Jun 3, 9:00 am, "n...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <n...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have a box with Fedora 8.
I just did a complete "yum update" and then reboot the system.
After POST, I get the word GRUB at the top left, and there it stops!

I used the Fedora 8 Rescue CD to load the system into /mnt/sysimage
and look at the /boot/grub/grub.conf.
Everything looks fine.
(It's not dual boot, but it does have two menu entries for two
kernels.)
The only real difference (other than the kernel versions) between
grub.conf and a backup from a year ago is in the kernel lines, the old
one has:
root=LABEL=/12
while the new one doesn't have the 12. I tried adding the 12, but it
still stalls at GRUB.
root (hd0,0) is the same on both.

Any ideas anyone?
Thanks!
-Liam

OK, here's I guess an easy question that might help me narrow things
down:
If it's stalling immediately upon displaying "GRUB", does that mean
that grub is having a hard time seeing the /boot partition and it
hasn't even gotten to the two kernel sections later in grub.conf?
If so, I know I need to focus of device.map and possibly boot=/dev/???
in grub.conf, and not worry about the kernel lines in the conf.

Also, in device.map, should devices be given the h?? vs. s?? or all
s?? demarcations?
As in: /dev/hda, /dev/sda, /dev/sdb
or /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc ?

Thanks
.

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