RHEL 3 doesn't boot after successful install on HP Vectra 6/150

Rick Stevens rstevens at vitalstream.com
Thu Oct 28 18:44:08 UTC 2004


Krzysztof wrote:
> Installation works like a charm every time.
> I have two hard drives, 8GB and 2GB that I partition manually using Disk 
> Druid.
> I create /boot, /, /var, /usr, and swap partition as prescribed.  All is 
> well.
> When the system reboots I get a screen-full of word GRUB.  Oh, well.
> I bring the system under the rescue mode and verify if the grub.config 
> file in there.
>    chroot  /mnt/sysimage
>    cd  /boot/grub
> It is, and it looks good.
> The / (root) is on the /dev/hda3 partition which is not on the extended 
> partition.
> Just to make sure, I reinstall the grub:
>    grub-install  /dev/hda
>    exit
>    exit
> After the system reboots I get the same problem -  just one GRUB word on 
> the screen !!!
>  
> Did anyone experience such a behaviour or has some ideas?  Any help 
> would be appreciated!

We need to see the grub.conf file that's involved.
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