Re: Fedora 9 install troubles - big

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Roger Heflin wrote:
Ric Moore wrote:
On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 10:21 +0200, Wim wrote:
Hi Ricky and Ric,

The problem is that GRUB just hangs and I can't even get into Runlevel 3 fedora boot, let alone set GRUB parameters or other parameters :(.

I find it hard to believe that Fedora couldn't handle 8 gigs of RAM.


There were several posts awhile back having problems with 4 gigs. You're
dual booting and have no problems with Windows?? Ric

Indeed I don't have any problems with it. In fact before I tried to install Fedora I was dual booting between Windows XP SP3 (which of course can only see 4 GB of RAM) and Windows Vista SP1 64-bit Business (which uses the full 8 gigs). This was done with the Vista bootloader and worked flawlessly.

Typical grub problems won't have anything to do with memory, grub needs very little ram so it is very doubtful it is trying to use anything but the very tiny bit of the low memory.

I have seen lots of machines hang because of too much ram, it has never been in grub, and it has always been much later in the boot process when it did hang, and I have on previous kernels ran machines up to 64G.

How grub hangs should give you some idea of what the failure is, generally this means that something about the hard disk setup is not correct, or something more basic like a bios issue.

Check out a grub debugging page and see what it means that only "grub" is showing on the screen.

You should also be able to boot with the DVD and let that boot into the already installed system to at least look around.

Reinstalling with the exact same process is likely to not be useful.

Did you use a small /boot partition?

                       Roger

Yes I used the Default layout from Fedora which creates a 200 MB /boot partition (/dev/sdb1).

As a small update: Harald Hoyer from Redhat hinted to boot the installer with the VESA option which gave me the graphical installer I wanted. I reinstalled Fedora from the graphical installer but still no go with Grub. Alo I noticed during the install that I couldn't add the Additional Software Repository (or something).

I can get to the system by booting the DVD in rescue mode however, so if anyone knows some good /etc/grub.conf things to help me out, feel free to shoot. I'm reading the GRUB manual as we speak in hopes of finding something that can resolve this problem.

Regards,

Wim

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