Trying to install GRUB but getting "L 99 99 99" error!

[Ed Brown]

Try checking the boot order in the system BIOS or the SCSI BIOS.  You
may be installing grub to sda, but still booting from sdb?

-Ed


On Fri, 2005-04-01 at 12:42, John Sabean wrote:
> I've been working at building a kickstart disk for a RedHat Enterprise 4  
> configuration that I have (using the demo/trial version).
> 
> My ks.cfg file has the following bootloader command:
> 
> bootloader --location=mbr --md5pass=$blahblahblah
> 
> When the host reboots, it prints out "L 99 99 99 99....". Thats a LILO  
> error, isn't it??? (and yes, this disk previously had LILO loaded on it)
> 
> I've even gone in, in rescue mode, run chroot, and performed 'grub-install  
> /dev/sda', and rebooting I get the same error.
> 
> I'm at a total loss!
> 
> Here are some goodies from my ks.cfg file:
> 
> 
> install
> cdrom
> lang en_US.UTF-8
> langsupport --default=en_US.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
> keyboard us
> xconfig --card "ATI Mach64" --videoram 8128 --hsync 30-61 --vsync 56-76  
> --resolution 800x600 --depth 16
> network --network setup
> rootpw --iscrypted $blablahblah
> firewall --enabled --port=22:tcp
> selinux --enforcing
> authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5
> timezone America/New_York
> # The following is the partition information you requested
> # Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed
> # here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is
> # not guaranteed to work
> clearpart --all
> zerombr yes
> part /boot --fstype "ext3" --ondisk sda --start 1 --end 13
> part /usr --fstype "ext3" --ondisk sda --start 14 --end 2563
> part /opt --fstype "ext3" --ondisk sda --start 2564 --end 3838
> part /export --fstype "ext3" --ondisk sda --start 3839 --end 5113
> part /tmp --fstype "ext3" --ondisk sda --start 5114 --end 6133
> part /usr/local --fstype "ext3" --ondisk sda --start 6134 --end 6898
> part /var --fstype "ext3" --ondisk sda --start 6899 --end 7535
> part swap --ondisk sda --start 7536 --end 7599
> part / --fstype "ext3" --ondisk sda --start 7600 --end 8924
> part /junk --fstype "ext3" --ondisk sdb --start 1 --end 8924
> bootloader --driveorder=sda,sdb --location=mbr --md5pass=$blahblahblah
> 
> %packages
> ... etc
> 
> Any help would be greatly appriciated.
> 
> 
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