Bug 57236

Summary: grub hangs on Tyan Thunder MOBO
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: David Thompson <thomas>
Component: grubAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
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Version: 7.2   
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Description David Thompson 2001-12-07 16:42:28 UTC 
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Description of problem:
If I 'grub-install /dev/hda', the loader hangs after printing:
GRUB Loading stage 1.5.
If I 'grub-install /dev/fd0', the loader works, but prints
GRUB Loading stage 2...
twice before giving me the menu.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install red hat 7.2 with grub
2. reboot  :)
3.
	

Additional info:

This is a Tyan Thunder (2510) motherboard, 2xPIII/933MHz, 2 Gigs RAM
bios rev 1.05.
Comment 1 David Thompson 2001-12-07 16:47:12 UTC 
Created attachment 40049 [details]
System configuration
Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2001-12-07 21:07:25 UTC 
Do you know if this board works if you are a) using LILO and b) have lba32
specified in /etc/lilo.conf?
Comment 3 David Thompson 2001-12-08 17:51:35 UTC 
Yes, it works fine with lilo in linear mode (that's what I'm doing now for a
workaround) and lba32 mode.
Comment 4 Jeremy Katz 2002-01-02 20:12:02 UTC 
Could you try the test package at http://people.redhat.com/~katzj/grub/.  If you
install the package and then run `/sbin/grub-install /dev/hda` (or wherever you
have grub installed other than /dev/hda) and let me know if that works better,
it would be great.
Comment 5 David Thompson 2002-01-07 20:40:13 UTC 
...and there was much rejoicing (yeah)

Yes, with the test rpm grub works great with this motherboard.  Modulo the
standard caveats, is there any reason I shouldn't use this in a production red
hat mirror (mirror.cs.wisc.edu)?

Dave
Comment 6 Jeremy Katz 2002-01-07 20:49:25 UTC 
Not that I know of...  boot loaders tend to be a "if it works once, it will keep
working" type of thing, and it's also pretty close to version 0.91 from all that
I gather.  Closing as rawhide since this will show up there soon.