Question about your install: When you did the installation of FC4, did you use linux dd to load the driver for the SATA drive and/or controller? -----Original Message----- From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Alan M. Evans Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 12:07 PM To: Anil Kumar Sharma; For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: FC4 boot hangs on SATA drive On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 00:07, Anil Kumar Sharma wrote: > I do have a SATA drive on which FC4 installed without incident. But I > have a dual boot with XP. I am using LVM, probably u should have a > /boot out of LVM if you are using LVM. > This is part of LVM docs. Thanks for the reply! Unfortunately (or fortunately, I guess, depending on point of view), /boot *is* a primary partition, which is the default setup. I've only added another partition for /home, and the remainder of the disc was put in VolGroup00. -Alan > On 6/29/05, Alan M. Evans wrote: > Hello! > > We just got a couple of new machines here that I am tasked > with setting > up to be internal servers. Each has only a single SATA hard > drive for > storage. > > I install FC4, which goes without incident. Reboot after > install, and > the boot process stops cold at "GRUB loading stage 2..." > message. I can > boot from the rescue CD and peruse the installed volumes with > no > trouble. > > I've searched and found probably a hundred questions online > regarding > similar symptoms. (Most pre-FC4, and most having some element > of > dual-booting (I'm not dual-booting).) None have suggested > anything that > has helped. > > At this point I don't know what else to do. I can post the > contents of > any config file or the output of any program - I just need to > know where > to start. What I don't want to do is hand these SATA drives > back to my > boss and tell him to save them for some WinXP install because > I can't > use them with Linux! > > Thanks, all > -Alan > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > > > > -- > Anil Kumar Shrama > > ______________________________________________________________________ > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- Alan M. Evans <ame1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
