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

John Sabean docmani at zahadum.net
Fri Apr 1 20:23:44 UTC 2005


Never mind, I'm stupid.  :)

I have a SAN attached to the system. When I install, it recognizes the SAN  
as sda. When the system boots, it recognizes my first HD as sda.

Never mind... :)


On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 12:48:00 -0700, Ed Brown <ebrown at lanl.gov> wrote:

> 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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