From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: Basically I tried BOTH an upgrade from FC2 and a completely freshinstall of FC3, and what follows is equally true: * Installed Fedora Core 3 on a system that is known to have been working with Fedora Core 2. * Upgrade went perfectly fine, but noticed that the SATA hard disk was now located at /dev/sda instead of /dev/hdg * Reboot. Bad Joss, Grub gets to stage 2 and reports "GRUB Hard Disk Error" * Rescue disk mounts everything just fine. * Try again with a complete reinstall instead of upgrade, result the same. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): v.95, I think How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install fc2 2. upgrade 3. fail on first boot or 1. install fc3 2. fail on first boot. Actual Results: "GRUB Hard Disk Error" after stage2 message Expected Results: Grub menu at least Additional info: I tried putting an IDE drive in and installing just on that, but same result. I only suspect SATA is the core of the problem becuase I read other people mention this same problem on SATA drives. Plan to try the same thing again by installing fc2 and trlling it not to touch the boot loader when it upgrades.
I see something similar. I had a new machine (AMD64, Promise 378 SATA RAID) with no previous OS. Everything went fine until the first boot - all I get is the GRUB command line. It is possible to boot the system by specifying the kernel, initrd etc. on command line, but I don't know GRUB well enough (yet) to make it automatic.
If I use the grub from FC2, I can get the install to work just fine. All I have to do is install FC2, minimal, with a tiny boot partition, then install FC3, full install, but tell it to use NO BOOTLOADER. Then when reboot, grub works fine. Manually point it to the right boot partition the first time (FC3 boot partition), then when finished installing, mount the FC2 boot bartition and edit grub.conf to permanantly point to FC3. I may experiement some more to see what else I can get it to do in the future, but for now at least it's booting. What changed in grub between fc2 and fc3? anything really major?
The change from grub 0.94 -> 0.95 was pretty small from what I remember and it was mostly adding things to the second stage and not adjustements that would change this. Could you check if there is a BIOS update available for your machine?
Closing per lack of response to previous request for information. This bug was originally filed against a much earlier version of Fedora Core, and significant changes have taken place since the last version for which this bug is confirmed. Note that FC3 and FC4 are supported by Fedora Legacy for security fixes only. Please install a still supported version and retest. If it still occurs on FC5 or FC6, please reopen and assign to the correct version. Otherwise, if this a security issue, please change the product to Fedora Legacy. Thanks, and we are sorry that we did not get to this bug earlier.