[KLUG Members] GRUB problems

Mark Bystry mabystry at verizon.net
Thu Dec 2 10:28:01 EST 2004


Have you tried Lilo? For some reason I cannot use Grub on my Dell. Lilo is the only bootloader that 
will work for me.

Mark Bystry
SuSE 9.2 Pro


John Pesce wrote the following on 12/2/2004 9:29 AM:
> Hello,
> 
> I've been fighting with GRUB for a couple days now. I'm a bit clueless
> at this point why it is acting stupid.
> 
> I have a server with a SuperMicro 370DLE motherboard, an Adaptec 2100S
> RAID card (data drive) and an IDE system drive. It was running RH8.2 but
> I'm migrating it to Suse 9.2, or at least trying.
> 
> I can boot up the Suse 9.2 install, everything is detected, and the
> install goes smoothly, until it reboots. 
> 
> I get up to the message "GRUB loading stage2..." and the system hangs,
> CTRL-ALT-DEL has no effect. No boot menu, never even gets to loading the
> kernel, no error messages.
> 
> How does one go about diagnosing the problem?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> John
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