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Re: GRUB hangs at boot



On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:51:00PM +0200, Robert Fenech wrote:
> Hi there: 
> 
> After having partitioned my hard disk (+ran fdisk /mbr) and installed
> the system GRUB hangs right after displaying the stage2 ...... thing.
> 
> I booted from a LILO on a floppy disk and mounted the root.  Then I
> check the partition table to see if everything was as should be.  
> 
> I put grub on a floppy disk but again when I tried to boot grub from the
> floppy disk I got the same thing, GRUB hangs at stage2 ...... message.
> 
> The motherboard is a Soltek SL-61D and I flashed it with the latest
> BIOS.  Is this something that has to do with support of on board IDE/FDC
> controllers?
> 
> When I took the same GRUB boot disk on another machine it booted with no
> problems whatsoever. 
> 
> Any advise? 

Do you have device.map in your grup directory?
for example, /boot/grub/device.map
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/hda

Good luck,

Qian



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