yes, i did the break into a bios setup, removed the cd, let post restart
and grub> was my reward.
what pissed me off was that find /proc/grub/stage1 was not present
saying lots of useful stuff wasnt there. (path above might not be exact,
its late)
i realize you cant judge the entire distribution from the behaviour of,
i would guess
low level hw access, but i do need a higher level of confidence than this
before i will move my desktop to it. my desktop has to be stable.
as thsi is a vanilla dell desktop, its a mystery to me what could be an
issue. this same hw has supported netbsd and other revs of linux.
i dont suppose anyone on this list has an interest in debugging this
by sending me a set of diagnostic steps i could try?
just a thought, jackc... (note jackc == jcraig)
Jeff Vian wrote:
On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 13:11 -0800, jackc wrote:
well, its looking like fc4 just isnt ready for prime time.
i have a dell 2200 and its a criteria for a new desktop to
load/test on that platform first.
after a number of trials, the reboot during cd#4 is constantly
returning to grub.
trying the below works fine, but the reboot just returns to
the install dialog to start the whole thing over.
Did you remove the install cd after doing the rescue step and before
trying to boot again?
its no closer to working.
any final diagnostics i can try for this problem?
my goal is not difficult, i am selecting everything
to install, auto partition w/remove all linux partitions.
this box has successfully hosted many netbsd flavors and RH ES 4,
so i gotta be suspect of the fc4(i checked the cd sums too).
frustrated and disappointed, jackc...
On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 17:47 -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 16:42 -0800, jackc wrote:
hi gang,
so i load the 4 fc 4 cd's and after loaded the it says it wants to do a
graphical portion, reboots and i am looking a
grub>
prompt!!
what the heck is supposed to happen now?! is this normal?!
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no - not normal
sounds as if you didn't allow grub to install the necessary stuff
into /dev/hda
try this...
boot disk 1
skip media check
type 'linux rescue' and press enter at boot prompt
when finished loading...
type 'chroot /mnt/sysimage'
type 'grub-install -v /dev/hda'
type 'exit'
type 'exit'
see if it reboots
note - don't include the single quotes - they were for your
identification only
Craig
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