I'd try booting from the rescue disk into single user mode, chroot to the harddrives root "/" and try reinstalling grub. Maybe the old grub from RH8 got left on vs the new Fedora grub.
-David On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 19:13, Carlos J. Cela wrote: > Hi, > > I upgraded my home PC (a P3 Dell Dimension XPS, with a promise Ultra66 > disk controller) from RH8 to Fedora Core, and grub is halting after > displaying "Stage 2" and a couple of graphic chars on the screen. I can > boot perfectly fine from a Fedora rescue disk, everything works when > doing so, but the PC will just not boot from the harddisk. > > When upgrading to Fedora, I requested the installer to convert my root > partition from ext2 to ext3 - could this have cause grub not to work > properly? > > I recall having issues long time ago getting the Promise Ultra66 to work > with RH7 (would install but not recognize the disk afterwards). Could > this be the case here? > > Any help will be appreciated. > Thanks, > > Carlos- -- David A. Cafaro <dac(at)cafaro.net> Sys Admin to User: "You did what?!?" -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
