Problem with booting FC2T2

Till tillm at optushome.com.au
Thu Apr 15 17:42:39 UTC 2004


On 16/04/04 02:47 mike Squawked:

> I have just installed test2 on my home PC (third PC installed on)
> Apart from the BIOS not recognising the CD as bootable everything went
> without a hitch in the install.
> 
> However it will not boot at all - it comes up with the grub shell.
> 
> Then if I do root(hd0,1) - where my root partition is
> I get a message saying "block range ouside BIOS" cant remember exactly,
> at work at the moment.
> 
> The Hardware is amd K6 500, 256 Mb 20 Gb WDC drive
> 
> All I can think of is trying to tell grub to use lba32, but I cant seem
> to find how to do it.
> 
> Anyone any ideas on this

I had the same problem on a fresh install as
well, found it was kudzu causing the problem. If
I did an interactive boot and said no to loading
kudzu, the machine would boot fine, I then ran
kudzu once I was logged in.  Have now upgraded to
the latest *.322 kernel and all is fine (: HTH!

-- 
Till





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