[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 10:09
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Grub booting issue
> 
> Jason Pyeron wrote:
> >> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of m.roth at 5-cent.us 
> >> 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?
> <snip>
> >> Have you <alt-F3> or <alt-F4>, and seen what it's logging?
> >
> > Please elaborate on the alt-f4/f4 thing.
> 
> While booting, if you hit them and it's not *too* soon in the 
> boot process, screen will be running, and you can get another 
> console window.
> There's eight, I think, available, and three and four show 
> diffent logging info - I think one gets copied to boot.log, 
> or dmesg, and the other to /var/log/message. At any rate, 
> they're written to the screen.

I am hanging prior to the kernel being loaded.


I have change what few options there are in the bios (v1.1.12), no luck.

More internet searching:

http://refried.org/blog/226/

http://bugs.debian.org/419766

Does centos have grub2?

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