Description of problem: After installing FC6 from the CD's, the machine won't boot from the harddisk. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always. I have found no work-around, and therefore the severity is set to High. I really need some kind of work-around, so that I at least can boot my system. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install FC6 from the CD's. Actual results: After rebooting, the machine halts with the message "GRUB Loading stage2.." Expected results: The machine should boot normally. Additional info: This problem has been seen before. However, the solutions presented in the other bug reports have not helped me. I've tried the following: 1. Boot from rescue CD 2. chroot /mnt/sysimage 3. grub-install /dev/sda However, after booting the machine now hangs at "GRUB Loading stage1.5." I then tried: 4. Boot from rescue CD 5. chroot /mnt/sysimage 6. /sbin/grub 7. root (hd0,0) 8. kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet 9. initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img but this gives "Error 28: Selected item cannot fit into memory". My machine details are as follows: Via EPIA EN12000E motherboard with a VIA VT8237R controller. 512 MB RAM A single 160 GB SATA disk (no raid). The partition info is as follows: sh-3.1#sfdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 19457 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 0+ 608 609- 4891761 83 Linux /dev/sda2 609 1217 609 4891792+ 83 Linux /dev/sda3 1218 1340 123 987997+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda4 1341 19456 18116 145516770 5 Extended /dev/sda5 1341+ 1949 609- 4891761 83 Linux /dev/sda6 1950+ 6205 4256- 34186288+ 83 Linux /dev/sda7 6206+ 19456 13251- 106438626 83 Linux sh-3.1#mount /dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,defaults) /dev/sda2 on /home type ext3 (rw,defaults) /dev/sda6 on /p2p type ext3 (rw,defaults) proc on /proc type proc (rw,defaults) /dev/sda7 on /share type ext3 (rw,defaults) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,defaults) /dev/sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,defaults) /dev/sda5 on /var type ext3 (rw,defaults) The GRUB configuration files are: sh-3.1#cat /boot/grub/grub.conf # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg. # root (hd0,0) # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda1 # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/sda default=0 timeout=5 splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz hiddenmenu title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6) root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img sh-3.1#cat /boot/grub/device.map # this device map was generated by anaconda (hd0) /dev/sda I've tried installing FC5 as well as FC3 onto the same system, but that didn't help. I've not yet tried FC2. Nor have I tried installing onto a PATA drive. Please let me know if there is something else I can try, or some information I can provide.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 215226 ***