FC4 boot hangs on SATA drive
Alan M. Evans
ame1 at extratech.com
Wed Jun 29 16:07:29 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 00:07, Anil Kumar Sharma wrote:
> I do have a SATA drive on which FC4 installed without incident. But I
> have a dual boot with XP. I am using LVM, probably u should have a
> /boot out of LVM if you are using LVM.
> This is part of LVM docs.
Thanks for the reply! Unfortunately (or fortunately, I guess, depending
on point of view), /boot *is* a primary partition, which is the default
setup. I've only added another partition for /home, and the remainder of
the disc was put in VolGroup00.
-Alan
> On 6/29/05, Alan M. Evans wrote:
> Hello!
>
> We just got a couple of new machines here that I am tasked
> with setting
> up to be internal servers. Each has only a single SATA hard
> drive for
> storage.
>
> I install FC4, which goes without incident. Reboot after
> install, and
> the boot process stops cold at "GRUB loading stage 2..."
> message. I can
> boot from the rescue CD and peruse the installed volumes with
> no
> trouble.
>
> I've searched and found probably a hundred questions online
> regarding
> similar symptoms. (Most pre-FC4, and most having some element
> of
> dual-booting (I'm not dual-booting).) None have suggested
> anything that
> has helped.
>
> At this point I don't know what else to do. I can post the
> contents of
> any config file or the output of any program - I just need to
> know where
> to start. What I don't want to do is hand these SATA drives
> back to my
> boss and tell him to save them for some WinXP install because
> I can't
> use them with Linux!
>
> Thanks, all
> -Alan
>
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