Re: Fedora Core 3 Hangs When Booting

From: Heribert Slama (slama-h-usenet_at_spamfence.net)
Date: 11/25/04

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    paul_malone@kywb.uscourts.gov (Paul) wrote in message news:<346c9880.0411191132.61932d5@posting.google.com>...

    > I have an AMD 64 CPU and two SATA disk drives configured with RAID 1.
    > I installed Windows XP first on /dev/sda1, then installed Fedora Core
    > 3 x86_64 on /dev/sda2 and the installation seemed to go okay.
    > However, when I tried rebooting into Linux, grub hangs with the
    > message: "Grub loading stage2...". [.......]

    The same thing happened to me :-<<<

    Either one of /boot/grub/stage1, stage2, or /sbin/grub ('grub shell')
    are corrupted, or an installation script runs the grub shell with
    wrong parameters.
          *** Anyway, stage2 is really unusable! ***
    I simply _replaced_ stage1 and stage2 in /boot/grub with a copy taken
    from my Debian installation, then ran 'setup (hdn,m)' from a
    _different instance_ of Grub - and was back in business<g>.

    FYI: I use Grub in a 'cascaded' manner. My Master Boot Record starts
    one instance of Grub with a first level menu which simply chain loads
    to a specific boot loader; either the Windows 2000 boot loader or
    another instance of Grub installed into the (boot=root) partition of a
    Linux system. Additionally, I have a grub floppy. Therefore I had
    several copies of the binaries and could easily run 'setup' from
    outside of the Fedora partition.

    Grub installation can also be done from a different instance of Linux
    using the grub shell (/sbin/grub). But you must be very careful with
    the parameters for setup/install; you might easily break an existing
    boot loader setup;-)

    If you don't have another copy of the grub binaries you can get them
    via gnu.org (sorry, no closer URL available;-). It is even possible to
    create a grub floppy under _Windows_ from a downloadable floppy image.

    Good luck,
      Heribert

    P.S.: I wonder, you didn't already get a reply to your posting. Forums
    at fedoracore.org (run by a user community) have nothing about this
    topic, too

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