GRUB Boot Fails on P3 without Keyboard

Rebecca.R.Hepper at seagate.com Rebecca.R.Hepper at seagate.com
Fri Oct 1 13:18:20 UTC 2004





My RH9 P3 systems fail to boot GRUB while the P4 systems boot without any
problems.  When the P3 tries to boot, it hangs before the RedHat Linux
interactive setup at a line that says "apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03
(Driver version 1.16)".  If a keyboard is attached to the P3, it will boot
without issues but the system must boot without a keyboard.  The P3 will
boot LILO without a keyboard attached.  Any idea how to get GRUB to boot
without a keyboard on the P3's?

Thanks!

The grub-0.93-4 RPM is installed.

This is my grub.conf:
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-30.9smp)
      root (hd0,0)
      kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-30.9smp ro root=LABEL=/
      initrd /initrd-2.4.20-30.9smp.img
title Red Hat Linux-up (2.4.20-30.9)
      root (hd0,0)
      kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-30.9 ro root=LABEL=/
      initrd /initrd-2.4.20-30.9.img

This is partioning info from 'dh -h':
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda9             244M  104M  127M  46% /
/dev/hda1              99M   15M   80M  16% /boot
/dev/hda2             3.9G   36M  3.7G   1% /home
none                  250M     0  250M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda6             3.9G  1.6G  2.2G  42% /usr
/dev/hda3             3.9G   76M  3.6G   3% /usr/local
/dev/hda5              21G   80M   20G   1% /var




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