John Thompson wrote: > On 2007-11-09, Christopher Chan <christopher at ias.com.hk> wrote: > >> I don't know...he did say that he restored lilo to get his FC1 >> installation working again. grub should not have problems picking up its >> second stage unless it rests beyond the 1024 cylinder and there is no >> LBA support. That leads to the question, where is the partition for the >> /boot for the Centos5 kernels located and is there LBA support in the BIOS? > > On my first installation attempt grub was installed beyond the 1024 > cylinder mark, but I assumed that my year 2000 BIOS ought to be able to > handle that. On my second unsuccessful install attempt, Centos had the > whole drive to itself, /boot was on /dev/hda1 starting at cylinder 1. > The rest of the drive anaconda used for the LVM volume. > I have never had that kind of problem with grub...man, I used pxegrub for the boot process for dozens machines with serial console support. Ext3 for /boot eh? I am sorry...beyond making a grub floppy or grub cd as you say you have done...I do not know what else to try on your part. LBA support in BIOS?