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

[Krzysztof]

> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Rick Stevens" <rstevens at vitalstream.com>
> > To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux"
<redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 2:44 PM
> > Subject: Re: RHEL 3 doesn't boot after successful install on HP Vectra
6/150
> >
> > >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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>
 Original Message -----
From: "Rick Stevens" <rstevens at vitalstream.com>
To: "Getting started with Red Hat Linux" <redhat-install-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2004 7:34 PM
Subject: Re: RHEL 3 doesn't boot after successful install on HP Vectra 6/150


> Krzysztof wrote:
> > Rick,
> >
> > Thanks for responding.  Here is the text of two grub.conf files that I
tried
> > but unfortunately to no avail:
> > THIS FILE was generated by Red Hat software automatically.
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > # grub.conf generated by anaconda
> > #
> > # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this
file
> > # NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition. This means that all kernel and
> > #                   initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
> > #                   root (hd0,0)
> > #                   kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda3
> > #                   initrd /initrd-version.img
> > #boot=/dev/hda
> > default=0
> > timeout=10
> > splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> > title Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (2.4.21-20.EL)
> >            root (hd0,0)
> >            kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-20.EL  ro  root=LABEL=/  hdd=ide-SCSI
> >            initrd /initrd-2.4.21-20.EL.img
> >
> > T H I S file is the one that I modified as I though it would make sense:
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > default=0
> > timeout=10
> > splashimage=(hd0,2)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> > title Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (2.4.21-20.EL)
> >            root (hd0,2)
> >            kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-20.EL  ro  root=/dev/hda3
> > hdd=ide-SCSI
> >            initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.21-20.EL.img
> >
> > Interestingly enough, the same install and the boot process did not give
me
> > any
> > problems on my ThinkPad laptop even though I installed it on a separate
> > VMware
> > partition, in parallel with Windows 2000.
>
> Is there a reason you changed the (hd0,0) to (hd0,2) in your edited
> version?  Which partition is /boot on?
>
> I have to ask, because the "root=" refers to grub's root, NOT the OS's
> root!  Grub has to find its stuff somewhere, and you've now got it set
> to look at the third primary partition on the first drive.
>
> By the way, we prefer bottom-posting here.
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Rick,
You have good point.
Here is my partition map per filesystems of interest:
/dev/hda1    /boot
/dev/hda2    /home
/dev/hda3    /
Obviously, the original grub file generated by the system was correct (?)
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (2.4.21-20.EL)
           root (hd0,0)
           kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.21-20.EL  ro  root=LABEL=/  hdd=ide-SCSI
           initrd /initrd-2.4.21-20.EL.img
Krzysztof