[CentOS] Re: Stuck at GRUB

Thu Nov 29 19:49:11 UTC 2007
Brett Moss <brettsspot at yahoo.com>

--- Ugo Bellavance <ugob at lubik.ca> wrote:

> Christopher Chan wrote:
> > Ugo Bellavance wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>     I have a Dell poweredge 400SC here with an
> LSI scsi card.
> >>
> >> I installed Centos4 a while ago and put it in a
> datacenter.  I 
> >> rebooted many weeks after, and the machine didn't
> come back up.  So I 
> >> went to the datacenter tonight to find out that
> the server was stuck 
> >> at "GRUB". Nothing more.
> >>         So I decided to re-install Centos4.  The
> partitions were 
> >> already there, so I just made sure partitions
> were formatted and the 
> >> install went fine.  When I rebooted, "GRUB".
> >>
> >>     I'm at this point and I don't know exactly
> what I could do to 
> >> diagnose furthere.
> >>
> >>     Any ideas?
> > 
> > grub cannot find its second stage. Are you booting
> from a mirrored 
> > partition?
> 
> Yes

Hello,
I have found this article from Dell to be pretty
straightforward.
http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/1q04-hul.pdf
It was written for RHEL3, but all info seems to apply
to RHEL4 and it's various rebuilds.

Brett


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