On February 7, 2004 06:37 pm, Harry Hoffman wrote: > Hi Pete, > > The drive HAS to be bootable "as it is right now". Otherwise I would never > know that GRUB was failing at Stage 1.5. The odd bit is that the system > boots via a boot floppy (or boot cd) from using mkbootdisk. But perhaps > this isn't so odd as GRUB is eliminated when booting in this fashion. I > just don't know. > > Cheers, > Harry > Harry, I misunderstood, I thought you had a grub mbr on a floppy (have you tried that? i never have) and that worked to launch grub, then the os. When it fails at stage 1.5, that is between the mbr & the kernel, I beleive that is when it reads grub.conf. So when it fails, would that mean it it fails starting or ending 1.5. Could that mean it can't access grub.conf? I just noticed that your earlier post (first?) shows: kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-28.9 ro root=/dev/md0 hdc=ide-scsi vga=791 I don't know if it could matter but vga=791 is invalid, you probably want vga=792 When you boot with the floppy or cdrom, do you get a raid system? If not, then you may still need to compile a kernel with raid support. If it failed at that point it would probably display a kernel panic not just a hang at stage 1.5. just some thoughts. -- Pete Nesbitt, rhce -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
