Installation of FCT2: GRUB interactive on 1st install and GRUBhangs on 2nd install

[Kenny Speer]

what exactly do you see when you boot?  do you have a grub> or nothing 
at all?  Also, try using a single hard drive, maybe there is a bug there 
with multiple spindles.  (ofcourse /dev/hda is the hard drive, /dev/hda1 
is a partition on that hard drive, /dev/hda2 is another partition on the 
same hard drive, /dev/hdb is a different hard drive)

Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Sigh... the 3rd time is a charm?  Unfortunately not. I took all
> the defaults.  FCT2 does NOT like Linux Systems 501.  Sheesh.
> I think I am going back to RH/debian unless someone has a brilliant
> idea what the jeepers is going on and tell me how to fix this.
> 
> Dan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel B. Thurman 
> Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 8:59 PM
> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> Subject: RE: Installation of FCT2: GRUB interactive on 1st install and
> GRUBhangs on 2nd install
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Yes, I did that.  It did not work.  I am re-installing for the third
> time taking all of the fedora defaults (it sets the paritions of
> MBR to /dev/hda, /boot to /dev/hda1, / and swap to /hdb1 and I manually
> selected the packages for server setup.  Lets see how that flys....
> 
> I noticed tho, that grub-install and grub (interactive) NEVER touches
> the /boot/grub.conf file...  hmmmmm. So if your grub.conf is missing
> or corrupted...  oh gosh darn, too bad.
> 
> Note: previously I fiddled with the paritions and noticed that the
> difference
> is that / was on /dev/hdb3 parition with no active set and the default
> suggested
> / is on /dev/hdb1, with active partition set.  I took the suggested
> /boot to be
> /dev/hda1 with MBR for /dev/hda (so, I always took the default). I am
> wondering
> if the / partition *has* to be in the first partition of any drive and
> set to active
> as I know that /boot has to be the first partition and set to active.  I
> thought
> that / parition can be anywhere it wants to be.
> 
> Sheesh, I spent all day Sat/Sun and getting nowhere with FCT2!
> Bad-Karma day I suppose.
> 
> Dan
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Mead [mailto:csm at moongroup.com]
> Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2004 8:07 PM
> To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases
> Subject: Re: Installation of FC T2: GRUB interactive on1st
> installandGRUBhangon 2nd install
> 
> 
> Daniel B. Thurman wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I tried EVERYTHING from grub-install, to interactive grub
>>so something is very wrong and I am unable to understand
>>it.  The grub.conf file is correct, the MBR is written
>>on the same drive as the /boot (although / is on a different
>>drive, non-active parition) so I have no idea what the problem
>>is.  Heck, I have installed RH MANY times with no problems,
>>so why is FCT2 failing for me?
>>
>>Any ideas???
> 
> 
> Does it boot to this:
> 
> grub>
> 
> and then stop?
> 
> If so you can try this...
> 
> Type the following at the grub prompt:
> 
> root (hd0,0) <then hit enter>
> setup (hd0) <then hit enter>
> 
> If you get no errors then you can reboot and see if it works.
>