[CentOS] Grub booting issue

[Jason Pyeron]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of m.roth at 5-cent.us
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 9:29
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Grub booting issue
> 
> Jason Pyeron wrote:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499204
> >
> > Given I can boot the install disk and chroot in, there must be away 
> > around Grub while still keeping LVM installed.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Screen says:
> >
> >   Booting  Centos (2.6.18-194.3.1.el5)
> >
> > root (hd0,0)
> >  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel 
> > /vmlinuz-2.6.18-194.3.1.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
> >    [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x1db35c]
> >
> > And then hangs. It is aleged that Grub probes aroung the bios which 
> > chrashes on optiplex 320s
> 
> I just was rebuilding a Vostro the other day, and had all 
> *kinds* of grief, including it hanging on the way up... until 
> I went into the BIOS, and in "integrated peripherals", I 
> think it was, saw "SATA Mode", and it was set to IDE. ONLY 
> when I arrowed down to that option did I see info on the side 
> saying it was for "XP, Vista and <older? newer?>. The other 
> option was RAID. I set it to that... and the install went 
> with no problems.
> 
> Then there was the older rackmount I rebuilt a few months 
> ago, that I had to unset an option that was *only* for OS/2....
>

Trudging through bios again.
 
> Have you <alt-F3> or <alt-F4>, and seen what it's logging?
> 

Please elaborate on the alt-f4/f4 thing.

-Jason



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