Dell Inspiron 4150 FC 3 Grub stuck on Stage2

Reuben D. Budiardja techlist at voyager.phys.utk.edu
Sun Feb 27 02:01:25 UTC 2005


Hello,
I have a Dell Inspiron 4150 Laptop with WinXP in it. I am trying to dual boot 
it with Fedora Core 3. Installation went fine, but when booting I got the 
dreaded problem Grub stuck on : "GRUB loading Stage2".

I then boot 'linux rescue' from Disc 1, and 'chroot /mnt/sysimage' which is my 
/ of FC 3 installation. I tried to run 'grub-install /dev/hda' and the shell 
just stuck there. If I cancel it and reboot, I got the same problem (stuck at 
Stage2). I tried this many times with no luck.

Any suggestions ? 
Attached is my grub.conf and list of partition table. Thanks in advance for 
any help.

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You do not have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg.
#          root (hd0,2)
#          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3
#          initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora Core (2.6.9-1.667)
	root (hd0,2)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
	initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
title winXP
	rootnoverify (hd0,1)
	chainloader +1

------------------------------------------------
fdisk output: 


Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4864 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1               1           4       32098+  de  Dell Utility
/dev/hda2   *           5        3949    31688212+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda3            3950        4798     6819592+  83  Linux
/dev/hda4            4799        4864      530145    5  Extended
/dev/hda5            4799        4863      522081   82  Linux swap




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