fedora boot problem (grub?)

[akonstam at trinity.edu]

On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 10:12:10PM -0400, Alex @ Avantel Systems wrote:
> Although my bios recognized my scsi disks, my Fedora install needed me to load 
> drivers manually otherwise the scsi disks were not found.  After that, the 
> install completes without further problems.  I asked that grub be used and 
> installed on the mbr.
> 
> After reboot I get "Operating System not found".
> 
> Using linux rescue (again with noprobe so I can load the driver), I tried 
> rewriting to the boot sector and although grub claims success, the results 
> are the same - can't boot.  I've tried copying stage 1&2 to a floppy to make 
> it do the boot but I get a grub prompt after stage 2 is loaded.
> 
> The driver I needed during install is listed in modprobe.conf (aic7xxx) and I 
> have tried re-creating initrd in various configurations (--preload=aic7xxx, 
> --omit-raid-modules, etc) all with the same result - can't boot
> 
> I'm looking for ideas and suggestions . . .  .
> 
I would have used --with=aic7xxx
in mkinitrd . That has always worked for me. And of course aic7xxx must
be loaded by modprobe.conf.
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