I had several issues with GRUB not working & LILO working, I gave up trying to fix and switched to EXTLINUX which works fine, and supports multiboot & ext2/3 filesystems etc.
Brice Figureau wrote: > I have a supermicro server running debian Etch, which was booting fine > for almost 3 years under lilo. > /boot is a software RAID 1 partition. > Root is also a software RAID 1 partition. > Since I wanted to experiment with Xen, I decided to use grub to boot. > After using the following under grub 0.97: > grub> find /grub/stage1 > (hd0,0) > (hd1,0) > > grub> root (hd0,0) > Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0xfd > > grub> setup (hd0) > Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no > Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes > Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes > Checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes > Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 15 sectors are embedded. > succeeded > Running "install /grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+15 p(hd0,0) /grub/stage2 > /grub/menu.lst"... succeeded > Done. > > I repeat the procedure for hd1 (/dev/hdc). > > I reboot, at this time the screen scrolls but nothing is printed except some > intermittent smiley character. > And a second after the boot hangs with just a smiley printed on the last > line of the screen. > It never printed anything, I'm not sure it even found stage1... > > I updated the bios of the motherboard to the latest version available, but it > didn't change anything. Installing Lilo again, and the server boots fine. > > The RAID is built with two (slightly differents) PATA drives (both masters of > each IDE bus). > > The menu.lst has been produced by debian's update-grub and contains the right > options. > Oh, and I also checked the device.map and it seems good to me (hd0 is mapped > to /dev/hda and hd1 mapped to /dev/hdc). > > Any idea on how I can fix that (or boot a xen dom0 kernel from lilo) ? > Thanks > > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-grub mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub > _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
