[CentOS] Grub booting issue

Thu Jul 15 21:08:27 UTC 2010
Jason Pyeron <jpyeron at pdinc.us>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: centos-bounces at centos.org 
> [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Gordon Messmer
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 13:25
> To: CentOS mailing list
> Subject: Re: [CentOS] Grub booting issue
> 
> On 07/15/2010 04:57 AM, Jason Pyeron wrote:
> >
> > Given I can boot the install disk and chroot in, there must be away 
> > around Grub while still keeping LVM installed.
> 
> What do you mean?  Do you think that LVM is causing the 
> problem in some way?

No, but lilo does not support lvm.

> 
> Where is the filesystem containing /boot located?

/dev/sda1 (ext2/3)

> 
> > And then hangs. It is aleged that Grub probes aroung the bios which 
> > chrashes on optiplex 320s
> 
> but not supporting evidence is given.  

What would you like? Did you read the bugzilla ticket?

>Is your BIOS up to date?

Yes see other email; it is 1.1.12. 

Your help is appreciated. 

Per a response on bugzilla, I am going to confirm that fedora 13 can boot on
this machine. Then I am going to try to get their version of grub to load.

-Jason

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