Well I think the hard drive thing is what was messing it up, I had the hard drives on auto detect but I went into the bios anyways and hit the HDD Auto Detect again and now it works, thanks for the help -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Scott Burns Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 11:06 PM To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Computer Hangs at GRUB Sean Harding wrote: > Hi group: > > I just installed FC1 on my spare computer hoping to use it as a web > server, the install went fine, in fact I've installed successfully > before on the same computer, but I swapped a Hard Drive, reinstalled > and now the computer hangs on the grub loading, it doesn't load up > grub it just hangs on GRUB after it tries to boot off CD. Anyone have > any suggestions as to how I might be able to fix the problem? > > Thanks > Is the disk geometry correct in BIOS? Linux ignores the BIOS (IIRC) and makes it's own disk geometry tables. You could have successfully installed with incorrect settings but I think GRUB uses the BIOS to determine disk layout and so will now be looking at a different area on disk. Do you get a "Loading stage whatever" type error? You say you swapped a hard drive out. Was there more than one hard drive in the system? Did you install GRUB to the /dev/hda or /dev/hda1? Do you get an operating system not found type error or a total or semi-lockup with no text on screen? -- Scott Burns Mirrabooka Systems Tel +61 7 3857 7899 Fax +61 7 3857 1368 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
