[TriLUG] Fedora, grub and ext3 questions

[David A. Cafaro]

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-
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