Re: [CentOS] Re: Centos5 install failure

2007-11-13 Thread Johnny Hughes
John Thompson wrote: On 2007-11-12, Alain Spineux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 9, 2007 10:55 PM, John Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grub came up on reboot, suggesting that it did indeed overwrite the lilo boot record in the MBR, but grub was unable to load completely and required a

Re: [CentOS] Re: Centos5 install failure

2007-11-13 Thread Alain Spineux
On Nov 13, 2007 5:15 AM, John Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-11-12, Alain Spineux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 9, 2007 10:55 PM, John Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grub came up on reboot, suggesting that it did indeed overwrite the lilo boot record in the MBR, but grub

Re: [CentOS] Re: Centos5 install failure

2007-11-13 Thread Christopher Chan
Johnny Hughes wrote: John Thompson wrote: On 2007-11-12, Alain Spineux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 9, 2007 10:55 PM, John Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grub came up on reboot, suggesting that it did indeed overwrite the lilo boot record in the MBR, but grub was unable to load

Re: [CentOS] Re: Centos5 install failure

2007-11-12 Thread Alain Spineux
On Nov 9, 2007 10:55 PM, John Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2007-11-09, Garrick Staples [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think your problem could happen if you installed the boot loader into the active partition and there is a stale boot loader in the mbr. I told anaconda to write the

[CentOS] Re: Centos5 install failure

2007-11-12 Thread John Thompson
On 2007-11-12, Alain Spineux [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 9, 2007 10:55 PM, John Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grub came up on reboot, suggesting that it did indeed overwrite the lilo boot record in the MBR, but grub was unable to load completely and required a hard reset to recover.

Re: [CentOS] Re: Centos5 install failure

2007-11-11 Thread Christopher Chan
John Thompson wrote: On 2007-11-09, Christopher Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know...he did say that he restored lilo to get his FC1 installation working again. grub should not have problems picking up its second stage unless it rests beyond the 1024 cylinder and there is no LBA

[CentOS] Re: Centos5 install failure

2007-11-09 Thread John Thompson
On 2007-11-09, Christopher Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know...he did say that he restored lilo to get his FC1 installation working again. grub should not have problems picking up its second stage unless it rests beyond the 1024 cylinder and there is no LBA support. That leads to

[CentOS] Re: Centos5 install failure

2007-11-09 Thread John Thompson
On 2007-11-09, Garrick Staples [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think your problem could happen if you installed the boot loader into the active partition and there is a stale boot loader in the mbr. I told anaconda to write the boot record onto /dev/hda assuming that woul put it in the MBR of the

[CentOS] Re: Centos5 install failure

2007-11-08 Thread John Thompson
On 2007-11-07, Christopher Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any clues what I did wrong? Yes. You placed the kernel on an LVM (grub does not support LVM...at least not LVM2 IIRC) and then come to this list where grub and lilo users like me are subscribers. Don't complain about grub. grub

Re: [CentOS] Re: Centos5 install failure

2007-11-08 Thread Garrick Staples
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:12:33PM -0600, John Thompson alleged: On 2007-11-07, Christopher Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any clues what I did wrong? Yes. You placed the kernel on an LVM (grub does not support LVM...at least not LVM2 IIRC) and then come to this list where grub and

Re: [CentOS] Re: Centos5 install failure

2007-11-08 Thread Christopher Chan
Garrick Staples wrote: On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:12:33PM -0600, John Thompson alleged: On 2007-11-07, Christopher Chan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any clues what I did wrong? Yes. You placed the kernel on an LVM (grub does not support LVM...at least not LVM2 IIRC) and then come to this list

Re: [CentOS] Re: Centos5 install failure

2007-11-08 Thread Christopher Chan
That leads to the question, where is the partition for the /boot for the Centos5 kernels located and is there LBA support in the BIOS? should have been: where is the partition for the /boot filesystem that holds the centos5 kernels located... ___