New kernels do not work.

[Steve]

---- slamp slamp <slackamp at gmail.com> wrote: 
> On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Steve <zephod at cfl.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> > ---- "Antti J. Huhtala" <ahuhtal4 at welho.com> wrote:
> >> pe, 2008-05-23 kello 05:47 +0300, Antti J. Huhtala kirjoitti:
> >> > to, 2008-05-22 kello 19:15 -0400, slamp slamp kirjoitti:
> >> > > Please help. PC stuck in grub> prompt.
> >> > >
> >> > The latest kernel update  2.6.25.3-18.fc9 - or one of the 199 files
> >> > updated at the same time - rewrote grub.conf so that (in my case) the
> >> > line which should have read:
> >> >
> >> > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25.3-18.fc9.x86_64 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> >> > rhgb quiet
> >> >
> >> > actually read:
> >> >
> >> > kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.25.3-18.fc9.x86_64 ro
> >> > root=UUID=ab562fb5-0a9a-4458-9f30-61c8a23f774a rhgb quiet
> >> >
> >> > Somehow my /dev/VolGroup... had been changed to UUID=...
> >> >
> >> > The same error had been applied to the previous kernel (2.6.25-14.fc9)
> >> > so that neither would boot.
> >> >
> >> Bugzilla # 448132.
> >
> > I have the same problem except that correcting my grub.conf file did not help. I'm still stuck with just GRUB showing on the screen. Also I did not get any sounds.
> >
> > Any futher suggestions?
> >
> > Steve
> >
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> 
> well my issue was either fedora or grub not being able work well with
> "fakeraid". anything i tried nothing helped. i reinstalled grub to the
> right fakeraid device and it did not help. so what i did was deleted
> the "fakeraid" from intel bios and just did a software raid (mdadm).
> this works better than dmraid and grub or fedora seems to properly use
> the /dev/md* device. "fakeraid" sucks, too bad i did not catch this
> when i bought my pc (powerspec e361).

I have 2 250G disks in this computer; one has Windows while the other has Fedora. I'll have to check when I get back to work but I think I remember there being only one disk mentioned in the boot order in the BIOS so perhaps this fake raid is turned on in the BIOS. This is an HP dc7700 machine and I know precious little about RAID, fake or otherwise so I don't use it or at least not on purpose.

Steve