Re: Grub Hangs at "Loading stage1.5"

[Russel Hill]

Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> On Friday 23 April 2004 17:24, Russel Hill wrote:
>
> > When I install grub natively, this is what happens:
> > grub> root (hd0,0)
> >  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> >
> > grub> setup (hd0,0)
> >  Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
> >  Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
> >  Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
> >  Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,0)"... failed (this in
> > not fatal)
> >  Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,0)"... failed (this in
> > not fatal)
> >  Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,0) /boot/grub/stage2 p
> > /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded
> > Done.
>
>
> Why do you install GRUB into a partition instead of MBR?

We've tried it both ways (and many other permutations too), with no 
difference between them (so far).  It just so happened that I posted the 
an attempt that installed to the partition.

Here are the results of our latest experiment.

We stopped the FAI install just prior to grub installation.  By hand, we 
did the following:

1) mkdir -p /boot/grub
2) cp -a /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/* /boot/grub
3) grub
4) root (hd0,0)
5) setup (hd0) (hd0,0)
6) quit

When we reboot grub hangs after displaying "Loading stage1.5" with no 
error message.  Ctrl-Alt-Del has no effect.

The FAI Boot CD has a GRUB installation that allows us to boot using the 
kernel installed on the hard disc.  Using that option we can:

1) boot
2) rm -rf /boot/grub
3) repeat the exact same steps as above

When we reboot, we get a grub prompt, as we should.

There are two notable differences (that I can think of) in the above:

1) In the first case, the we boot from the CD-ROM and install grub to 
the hard disc. In the second case we boot from and install to the hard disc.

2) In the first case, FAI boots up using a 2.4.24 kernel.  In second 
case, we are booting using a 2.6.2 kernel.

If there are other distinctions, I don't know what they are.

Any help is appreciated,
Russel Hill

PS. Once again I apologize for the cruft below.

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