Hi. We had a computer that had lilo on it. We replaced that with grub.
When we restart the server, after the POST/BIOS pages, we get a blank
screen, no grub menu, no error message.
We ended up having to boot off a CD rom.
Any ideas what we could try to do to fix this?
Regards, Peter
# How we'd uninstalled lilo
lilo -U /dev/hda
lilo -U /dev/hdb
# grub commands we'd run to install grub
# grub
grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> root (hd1,0)
grub> setup (hd1)
# grub --version
grub (GNU GRUB 0.95)
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md1 178G 71G 98G 42% /
/dev/md0 99M 29M 66M 31% /boot
# fdisk -ul
Disk /dev/hda: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders, total 390721968 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 63 208844 104391 fd Linux raid
autodetect
/dev/hda2 208845 12691349 6241252+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 12691350 390716864 189012757+ fd Linux raid
autodetect
Disk /dev/hdb: 200.0 GB, 200049647616 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 24321 cylinders, total 390721968 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 63 208844 104391 fd Linux raid
autodetect
/dev/hdb2 208845 12691349 6241252+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdb3 12691350 390716864 189012757+ fd Linux raid
autodetect
Disk /dev/md0: 106 MB, 106823680 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 26080 cylinders, total 208640 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
Disk /dev/md1: 193.5 GB, 193548976128 bytes
2 heads, 4 sectors/track, 47253168 cylinders, total 378025344 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Disk /dev/md1 doesn't contain a valid partition table
# cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all /xen.gz and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,0)
# /xen.gz /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/md1
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title White Box Enterprise Linux (2.4.21-4.ELsmp)
root (hd0,0)
/vmlinuz-2.4.21-4.ELsmp ro root=/dev/md1
initrd /initrd-2.4.21-4.ELsmp.img
# cat /proc/mdstat
Personalities : [linear] [raid1]
md1 : active raid1 hdb3[1] hda3[0]
189012672 blocks [2/2] [UU]
md0 : active raid1 hdb1[1] hda1[0]
104320 blocks [2/2] [UU]
unused devices: <none>
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