RH9 -> FC2 breaks GRUB?
Mike Burger
mburger at bubbanfriends.org
Thu Sep 9 23:56:55 UTC 2004
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.
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