Bug 131930
| Summary: | GRUB fails to boot DOS occasionally | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Landon Kelsey <landonmkelsey> |
| Component: | grub | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-09-07 18:18:09 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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If XP starts to boot and then later fails, that's an XP problem, not a grub problem. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030922 Description of problem: XP Prof on one scsi HD Redhat Enterprise 3.0 on a second scsi HD works great except: Once in a while when booting to DOS(XP PROF), the boot process starts but I never get to the XP Prof login screen. I have to do a not graceful restart and then I get into XP Prof. I reloaded XP Prof and this removed GRUB. To get GRUB back working, I did the below procedure and even though DOS appeared in the list, selecting DOS always brought me back to the initial GRUB selection menu. linux rescue You will be asked if you want to enable networking. This is optional if your installation images are on the local CD-ROM or hard drive. You will want to enable networking if your installation images reside on an FTP, HTTP, or NFS server on your network. The rescue environment will ask if you wish to mount filesystems. Select "Continue" to mount the filesystems in read-write mode. Verify that your filesystem was correctly constructed by issuing the mount command. Your hard drives will be reconstructed under the mount point /mnt/sysimage. To reinstall GRUB, you need to shift contexts so the grub-install command thinks that your root filesystem is the /mnt/sysimage directory. This is accomplished with the chroot command. Next run grub-install then exit: sh-2.04# chroot /mnt/sysimage sh-2.04# grub-install /dev/sda <--(if your disk is IDE, substitute hda for sda) sh-2.04# exit Type exit again to exit the rescue environment and reboot. Your bootloader should now be restored. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.simple boot and select DOS 2. 3. Actual Results: I get the GRUB screen again after selecting DOS Expected Results: should have booted up DOS Additional info: I did nothing fancy. Justwhat I indicated