what is the grub step?!

[jack craig]

yes, i did the break into a bios setup, removed the cd, let post restart
and grub> was my reward.

what pissed me off was that find /proc/grub/stage1  was not present
saying lots of useful stuff wasnt there. (path above might not be exact, 
its late)

i realize you cant judge the entire distribution from the behaviour of, 
i would guess
low level hw access, but i do need a higher level of confidence than this
before i will move my desktop to it. my desktop has to be stable.

as thsi is a vanilla dell desktop, its a mystery to me what could be an
issue. this same hw has supported netbsd and other revs of linux.

i dont suppose anyone on this list has an interest in debugging this
by sending me a set of diagnostic steps i could try?

just a thought, jackc... (note jackc == jcraig)

Jeff Vian wrote:

>On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 13:11 -0800, jackc wrote:
>  
>
>>well, its looking like fc4 just isnt ready for prime time.
>>
>>i have  a dell 2200 and its a criteria for a new desktop to 
>>load/test on that platform first.
>>
>>after a number of trials, the reboot during cd#4 is constantly
>>returning to grub. 
>>
>>trying the below works fine, but the reboot just returns to
>>the install dialog to start the whole thing over.
>>
>>    
>>
>
>Did you remove the install cd after doing the rescue step and before
>trying to boot again?
>
>  
>
>>its no closer to working.
>>
>>any final diagnostics i can try for this problem?
>>
>>my goal is not difficult, i am selecting everything
>>to install, auto partition w/remove all linux partitions.
>>
>>this box has successfully hosted many netbsd flavors and RH ES 4,
>>so i gotta be suspect of the fc4(i checked the cd sums too).
>>
>>frustrated and disappointed, jackc...
>>
>>On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 17:47 -0700, Craig White wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 16:42 -0800, jackc wrote:
>>>      
>>>
>>>>hi gang,
>>>>
>>>>so i load the 4 fc 4 cd's and after loaded the it says it wants to do a
>>>>graphical portion, reboots and i am looking a
>>>>
>>>>grub> 
>>>>
>>>>prompt!!
>>>>
>>>>what the heck is supposed to happen now?! is this normal?!
>>>>
>>>>        
>>>>
>>>----
>>>no - not normal
>>>
>>>sounds as if you didn't allow grub to install the necessary stuff
>>>into /dev/hda
>>>
>>>try this...
>>>
>>>boot disk 1
>>>skip media check
>>>type 'linux rescue' and press enter at boot prompt
>>>
>>>when finished loading...
>>>
>>>type 'chroot /mnt/sysimage'
>>>type 'grub-install -v /dev/hda'
>>>
>>>type 'exit'
>>>type 'exit'
>>>
>>>see if it reboots
>>>
>>>note - don't include the single quotes - they were for your
>>>identification only
>>>
>>>Craig
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>-- 
>>Jack Craig
>>
>>XPath/SAS Team
>>Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.
>>1600 Technology Dr.
>>San Jose, CA  95110
>>408.333.7478
>>Direct E-mail:  jcraig at brocade.com
>>
>>    
>>
>
>  
>

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