Hi,
I hope someone can give me a clue as to how to track this down.
I am a grub newbie, but have been using various linuces for years. I
have been looking at this for a week now, with no success; I
sincerely hope I'm not wasting your time with something stupid.
The machine is a ThinkPad T22 (2647 8EU), running Caldera's
Open Linux Workstation 3.1. Grub is on the MBR of the only IDE disk.
My partitions:
/dev/hda1 * 1 550 4157968+ 83 Linux (/)
/dev/hda2 551 570 151200 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 571 1600 7786800 83 Linux (/usr)
/dev/hda4 1601 2584 7439040 83 Linux (/home)
The machine does not boot from the hard disk - it shows
its IBM ThinkPad screen, then
GRUB Loading Stage 2...
for about two seconds, and then throws the machine back to its IBM
ThinkPad screen. The loop repeats until I turn off power.
I have to instead boot from the install CD, stop the installation
procedure, and edit the menu.lst from the CD to end up as
follows:
root (fd0)
kernel /vmlinuz vga=274 nosmp noapic quiet root=/dev/hda1 BOOT_IMAGE=boot
initrd /initrd.gz
I can then boot.
Right now, this is how I am using the system :-(
The lizard-generated menu.lst in /boot/grub is
#
#/boot/grub/menu.lst - generated by Lizard
#
# options
timeout = 5
splashscreen = (hd0,0)/boot/message.col31
default = 0
title = Linux
root = (hd0,0)
kernel = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-modular vga=274 quiet root=/dev/hda1
The /boot/grub/device.map file is:
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/hda
The installation of grub was (presumably) according to /etc/grub.conf:
root (hd0,0)
install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,0) /boot/grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd0,0)/boot/grub/menu.lst
install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) /boot/grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd0,0)/boot/grub/menu.lst
quit
Setup boot order is ATAPI CD, then hard disk (then other stuff).
Thank you for any light you may be able to shed on this.
Jim Martino
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