On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Andrew Leahy wrote: > I'm in the process of upgrading a bunch of systems across campus from > Redhat 9 to Fedora Core 2 (via a complete re-install) and I've run > across an interesting problem. In two of the four different types of > systems I've upgraded, GRUB no longer works after installing FC2. The > symptoms are that after the initial installation the system will hang on > the reboot with only the word "GRUB" displayed in the upper left-hand > corner of the screen. The systems where grub continues to work after > the upgrade use Asus A7M266-D and Supermicro 370DL3 motherboards. The > systems where grub no longer works are based on Asus P4B and Asus > CUV4X-D motherboards. I mention the motherboards because in at least > one case (Asus P4B) the solution was to upgrade to the latest BIOS. > However, that trick hasn't worked with the CUV4X-D motherboard. > > One other difference between the two systems is that the systems where > grub fails have two hard drives (with linux being installed on the > master disk). However, I've done the installation with the other drive > disconnected and come across the same problem. The only problem I ran into, in a RHL9 -> FC2 upgrade, was that the GRUB didn't get updated with the new kernel. Once I manually updated it, it was fine, but I was a bit confused, for a short time. -- Mike Burger http://www.bubbanfriends.org Visit the Dog Pound II BBS telnet://dogpound2.citadel.org or http://dogpound2.citadel.org To be notified of updates to the web site, visit http://www.bubbanfriends.org/mailman/listinfo/site-update, or send a message to: site-update-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with a message of: subscribe
