Hi, I hope someone out there can help... I have been installing Redhat 7.2 (with Grub) on an IBM 325 server. The install goes fine until the end when I reboot the machine. Then literally all I get on the screen is
GRUB at the top left of the screen. I'm serious, this all I get. Keystrokes have no apparent effect. This happens right after the machine's POST completes. OK, so here are some details of the machine etc. Hardware: - IBM 325 PC server (2x PII@233, 512MB RAM, ...) - On-board AIC7880 SCSI controller (set to boot device with id: 0) - Promise PCI ATA100 ide controller - 3x IBM DCHS04U 4GB SCSI drives (Geom: 548/255/63) (SCSI ids 0, 1, 2) - 1x IBM DTLA-307030 IDA ATA100 drive (Geom: 3737/255/63) (lone master on IDE1) Software - RedHat 7.2 - Grub-0.90-11 - ext3 filesystems - separate /boot partition Explanation: I followed the standard RH install process and selected GRUB when asked for a bootloader. Since the IDE card/drives are not recognized by the BIOS as boot devices, I opted to install Grub in the boot partition of the first/boot scsi drive (0). This gave me the less than optimal results described above (GRUB in the top left corner). Then I booted from a floppy and installed Grub into the MBR of the boot drive (0) manually. I did this using the technique from the ln -s . boot technique from the faq. find /boot/grub/stage1 worked fine and reported (hd1,0) (hd0 seems to be the IDE drive even though it is not on the system board...) The setup command executed and reported success. Reboot the machine and still no joy. The BIOS Virus detection did however report that the MBR had changed. I also noted that the 7880 SCSI controller may have some issues with LBA and int13 extensions. After trying all of the above I disabled the int13 extensions and rebooted. This time I simply got "GRUB GRUB GRUB ..." printed continuously on the screen. I hope this is enough informaition. Is there a way I can get more debug info or find out more about what is actually going on? For now i am booting off a floppy but that is not so great a story. While I am confident that it is a configuration problem of some sort, I am unable to navigate all the variables. I searched the web quite a bit but did not find anything particularly promising. Thanks Jeff _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub