[KLUG Members] GRUB problems

[John Pesce]

On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 10:28, Mark Bystry wrote:
> Have you tried Lilo? For some reason I cannot use Grub on my Dell. Lilo is the only bootloader that 
> will work for me.

No I haven't, but it is worth a shot. I was using GRUB with RH8.2, did
GRUB get broken?


> 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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