Bug 167844

Summary:	GRUB hangs when booting
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Dave Browne <dbrowne>
Component:	grub	Assignee:	Peter Jones <pjones>
Status:	CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	4
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Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
URL:	grub displays prompt will not boot
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Description Dave Browne 2005-09-08 20:21:10 UTC

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Description of problem:
When I boot the word GRUB appears with prompt will not boot further.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Reboot
2.
3.
  

Actual Results:  GRUB _ with prompt flashing

Expected Results:  Should complete booting

Additional info:

Comment 1 Erik P. Olsen 2005-10-07 12:01:14 UTC

Same happened to my FC3 after updating to kernel 2.6.12-1.1378.
Reactivating previous grub.conf makes no difference.
/etc/mtab looks strange:

/dev/hdb5 / ext3 rw 0 0
none /proc proc rw 0 0

Regards,
Erik P. Olsen

Comment 2 Erik P. Olsen 2005-10-08 17:45:41 UTC

Solved my problem. The GRUB loader was destroyed and "grub-install" inserted a
new GRUB loader. Apparently the up2date process clobbered the loader when
updating the kernel.

Regards,
Erik P. Olsen

Comment 3 Christian Iseli 2007-01-22 10:49:09 UTC

This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd.

Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and
either update the target product or close it ?

Thanks.

Comment 4 petrosyan 2008-02-28 23:57:39 UTC

Fedora Core 4 is no longer maintained.

Setting status to "INSUFFICIENT_DATA". If you can reproduce this bug in the
current Fedora release, please reopen this bug and assign it to the
corresponding Fedora version.