Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 57236
grub hangs on Tyan Thunder MOBO
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:01 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.78 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.16-csl1smp i686) 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. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 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.
Created attachment 40049 [details] System configuration
Do you know if this board works if you are a) using LILO and b) have lba32 specified in /etc/lilo.conf?
Yes, it works fine with lilo in linear mode (that's what I'm doing now for a workaround) and lba32 mode.
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.
...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
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.