[CentOS] Centos 6.2 x64 after GRUB menu, black screen with blinking cursor

[David McGiven]

Dear CentOS users,

I installed CentOS 6.2 x64 in a Sun Fire X4450 machine, it has 4 disks and
I configured them to be a single volume (no RAID). The installer sees the
volume perfectly, its 570Gb. I created two ext3 partitions, /dev/sda1 and
/dev/sda2. In the logs I see they are formated correctly. All the files are
installed.

Then when I reboot, I get to the GRUB menu. Choose the first and only
option, and immediately after that I only see a black screen with blinking
cursor on top left.

I've tried recreating the grub manually with :
find /boot/grub/stage1 (reported it on hd0,0)
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
quit

Then I try to boot and I get the same blinking cursor.

I tried another approach with no luck either :
replacing root=LABEL=UUID for root=/dev/sda1 just to see if this could help
... but I have the same problem.

I don't really now what's going on. Is there anyway to put grub into
verbose mode so I can see what exactly it is doing or looking for ?

Thanks in advance.

Regards.
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Re: [CentOS] Centos 6.2 x64 after GRUB menu, black screen with blinking cursor

[Yves Bellefeuille]

On Wednesday 31 October 2012, David McGiven davidmcgiv...@gmail.com 
wrote:

 I tried another approach with no luck either :
 replacing root=LABEL=UUID for root=/dev/sda1 just to see if this
 could help ... but I have the same problem.

I take it, then, that you can access and modify the file 
/boot/grub/grub.conf? If so, please post it. Make sure all files 
mentioned in grub.conf (kernel and initrd) actually exist.

 I don't really now what's going on. Is there anyway to put grub into 
 verbose mode so I can see what exactly it is doing or looking for ?

You can try removing rhgb from grub.conf, but if the problem is with 
Grub itself, it probably won't say more than it already does.

-- 
Yves Bellefeuille y...@storm.ca
Simply put, E=mc^2 is liberal claptrap. -- Conservapedia.com

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