Bug 169449

Summary:	Boot hangs at grub after updating kernal
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Egg <tenfourzero>
Component:	grub	Assignee:	Peter Jones <pjones>
Status:	CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Egg 2005-09-28 14:03:46 UTC

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Description of problem:
Athlon 64 3000+ (939)
4*80GB Seagate SATA HDD
3Ware 9500s-4 RAID card
Motherboard: Tyan s2865G2NR

The machine fails to boot after installing RHEL4 with two RAID1 arrays as described here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=114690

When set up as a single RAID5 array, the machine will boot and work fine. On running system updates ($ yum update) the system will fail to boot.

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set up 4 sata hdd through 3ware 9500 hardware raid card
2. install rhel 4
3. reboot and run "yum update"
4. reboot

Actual Results:  system hangs at a flashing underscore during boot (grub boot loader).

Additional info:

Comment 1 Denise Dumas 2008-07-25 17:03:41 UTC

This is odd, since we support up2date not yum with RHEL4. And there are no log
files etc so this could be almost anything. Closing, since there is no Issue
Tracker associated with this BZ.