From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.7-10smp i686) Description of problem: I just upgraded one of our systems to RH 7.2 and I'm having GRUB problems. When the system boots it continuely prints "GRUB" in some kind of loop. The system was upgraded from RH 7.1 to RH 7.2. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: I just upgraded one of our systems to RH 7.2 and I'm having GRUB problems. When the system boots it continuely prints "GRUB" in some kind of loop. The system was upgraded from RH 7.1 to RH 7.2. The system has 1 IDE (non-boot) disk and 3 SCSI disks. /boot is on sda. The SCSI controller is an Adaptec 29160. I've run "grub-install /dev/sda" several times. I am able to boot the system from floppy after I created one with mkbootdisk. Here's fstab: # # $Id: fstab,v 1.6 2001/08/04 18:31:36 root Exp root $ # /dev/sda6 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/sda1 /boot ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/sdb1 /export ext3 defaults 1 2 /dev/sdc1 /export/softdist ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hda1 /export/music ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 /dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0 /SWAP swap swap defaults 0 0 Here's /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 have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg. # root (hd1,0) # kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda6 # initrd /initrd-version.img #boot=/dev/sda1 default=0 timeout=10 splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Red Hat Linux (2.4.9-7enterprise) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.9-7enterprise ro root=/dev/sda6 initrd /initrd-2.4.9-7enterprise.img title Red Hat Linux (2.4.9-7BOOT) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.9-7BOOT ro root=/dev/sda6 initrd /initrd-2.4.9-7BOOT.img title Red Hat Linux (2.4.9-7) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.9-7 ro root=/dev/sda6 initrd /initrd-2.4.9-7.img title Red Hat Linux-smp (2.4.7-10smp) root (hd1,0) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.7-10smp ro root=/dev/sda6 initrd /initrd-2.4.7-10smp.img Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1115 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 1 5 40131 83 Linux /dev/sda4 6 1115 8916075 5 Extended /dev/sda5 6 71 530113+ 82 Linux swap /dev/sda6 72 1115 8385898+ 83 Linux device.map: # this device map was generated by anaconda (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd1) /dev/sda Additional info:
If your SCSI disk is the first disk in BIOS boot order, could you change /boot/grub/device.map to look like (fd0) /dev/fd0 (hd0) /dev/sda and re-run grub-install to see if that fixes the problem?
That fixed it. Thanks. :)