Paulo Cavalcanti wrote: > Hi, > > a couple of days ago I received a Dell Vostro 1400. > > I dumped its windows vista Home edition, > and install an F8 x86_64 image on it (I just copied the partitions from > another computer). > Then, I run grub-install /dev/sda using an F8 install DVD. > > The problem is that when I tried to boot using the latest kernel > 2.6.25-6-27.fc8, > and the newer grub, the boot hanged trying to load initrd. > > However, I could boot normally using a 2.6.24 or 2.6.23 kernel. > > Then, I downgraded grub to 0.97-19 and finally I could boot > to kernel 2.6.25. <http://2.6.25.> > > I also noted that kernel 2.6.25 had a setup=0x300 and > the previous kernels 0x2c00 (the only difference I could see > loading initrd). > > My question is: what has changed in grub, and > if I had run grub-install from the newer grub (0.97-33.1) the issue > would also be solved or could I get stuck for all kernels (not only for > 2.6.25). I'm not sure of the details of your problem, but just FWIW: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-4690 the latest grub is already headed for F8, for other reasons (handling the larger ext3 inode size on F9 filesystems). -Eric -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
