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linux boot hangs with grub
From: |
Simon J. Rees |
Subject: |
linux boot hangs with grub |
Date: |
Wed, 24 Oct 2001 11:26:20 -0500 |
I have W2K and Redhat 7.1 on a new system. Redhat put lilo in the MBR but I
would like to use grub to make a dual boot setup. I have compiled grub-0.90
and used grub-install to make a grub boot floppy. Using the floppy I can get
the grub console and I can boot W2K fine. To try and boot linux I used the
following commands at the grub> prompt:
root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda7
boot
The system will start to boot linux but will hang when it gets to starting
kswapd. The last message is 'starting kswapd v1.8'. The system will boot
linux fine using the lilo setup by the redhat installer. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Simon
System information:
P4 1.9MHz in Intel850MV motherboard
BIOS: MV85010A.86A.0005.P02
256 Mb RDRAM
40Gb Disk
Redhat 7.1
Grub 0.90
output from fdisk /dev/hda:
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 5005 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 2295 18434556 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 2296 5005 21768075 85 Linux extended
/dev/hda5 * 2296 2299 32098+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 2300 2363 514048+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda7 2364 2863 4016218+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 2864 5005 17205583+ 83 Linux
/etc/fstab
LABEL=/ / ext2 defaults 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
LABEL=/home /home ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
/dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660
noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/etc/lilo.conf:
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
lba32
default=linux
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2
label=linux
read-only
root=/dev/hda7
- linux boot hangs with grub,
Simon J. Rees <=