On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400:
[I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.]
I've tried several of the solutions suggested and am still stuck. In the
BIOS, Virus Protection was already disabled, and I tried turning off Power
Management. I've tried the different Access Modes for the drive (Auto, LBA,
Large).
Then I tried rebooting the installer in rescue mode and reinstalling grub (I
think it did "grub-install /dev/hde1").
Then I tried doing a whole new install of just the base system, but set up
these partitions:
IDE5 master (hde) - 41.2 GB IC35L040AVER07-0
#1 primary 98.7 MB B f ext3 /boot
#3 primary 39.5 GB f ext3 /
#5 logical 1.5 GB F swap swap
IDE5 slave (hdf) - 41.2 GB IC35L040AVER07-0
#1 primary 41.2 GB ext2
which gave /boot its own partition at the start of the disk. I tried this a
few times and should mention that the `f' flags in the table sometimes showed
as `F' or `K'. I think `F' means "format this", but I haven't been able to
track down what `f' and `K' mean.
As I said, these all still crashed when the boot got to grub. I wouldn't
have guessed that there was any need to have the boot files near the start of
the disk anyway. Until two days ago, this same disk in the same box had a
9.8-GB Win98 partition (1252 cylinders), followed by Red Hat, as follows:
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