Hi all. I have a P4 PC with an adaptec 2120 raid controller, with a RAID5 volume made of 3 scsi disks. Fedora Core 3 GNU/Linux on it. One day a disk failed. It was replaced and the controller reconstructed the raid volume correctly (at least for what it seems). But when I reboot the system, grub hangs at the initrd command, withount any error messages. If I try to boot grub in console (shell-like) mode and give the commands to grub manually, I obtain:
grub> root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub> kernel /vmlinuz-2.6 [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1400, size=0x14d2a0] grub> initrd /initrd-2.6.img [linux-initrd @ 0x5deda000, 0x115acf bytes] grub> And here Grub is frozen. Note the last grub prompt: it seems that the initrd command is performed, but I cannot give any further command (I would only like to issue "boot"!!) Things I tried: several different kernels, both from the distro and compiled by me, both smp and up; different grub versions: 0.95.3 from Fedora, on hard disk and on floppy. 0.97 from the file grub-0.97-i386-pc.tar.gz I downloaded via ftp from the Grub site; reinstalled grub both via grub-install and via the grub shell-like environment; fsck-ed all the file systems, which gave no errors; when Grub hangs, I can not issue ctrl-alt-del: the system seems to be really frozen; installed LILO, it boots without problems. After that, reinstalled Grub, and it still hangs on initrd. I tried the debug command in grub, but it gives me no additional output. I would like to investigate what the Grub problem can be, but have no clue about it. Thank you in advance. Luigi _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list Bug-grub@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub