Wim wrote:
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
It won't be a grub.conf issue, unless you are actually getting a grub prompt and
can type stuff on it, it will likely be something wrong with grub not finding
the stage1/1.5/2 files. Boot rescue and check the devices.map file and see if
the order of the disks looks ok and if there is anything extra in it, or just
change around the order of the disk and do a "grub-install" and try again. The
first stage is found by the bios, then that stage needs to find the next stage
(1.5) and the 1.5 stage needs to go from there.
How many hard disks do you have?
Roger
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