Re: Grub not booting, lilo works...Help needed...

[Ian Kirk]

I had several issues with GRUB not working & LILO working, I gave up
trying to fix and switched to EXTLINUX which works fine, and supports
multiboot & ext2/3 filesystems etc.

Brice Figureau wrote:

> I have a supermicro server running debian Etch, which was booting fine
> for almost 3 years under lilo.
> /boot is a software RAID 1 partition.
> Root is also a software RAID 1 partition.
> Since I wanted to experiment with Xen, I decided to use grub to boot.
> After using the following under grub 0.97:
> grub> find /grub/stage1
>  (hd0,0)
>  (hd1,0)
>
> grub> root (hd0,0)
>  Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0xfd
>
> grub> setup (hd0)
>  Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
>  Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes
>  Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes
>  Checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
>  Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"...  15 sectors are embedded.
> succeeded
>  Running "install /grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+15 p(hd0,0) /grub/stage2
> /grub/menu.lst"... succeeded
> Done.
>
> I repeat the procedure for hd1 (/dev/hdc).
>
> I reboot, at this time the screen scrolls but nothing is printed except some
> intermittent smiley character.
> And a second after the boot hangs with just a smiley printed on the last
> line of the screen.
> It never printed anything, I'm not sure it even found stage1...
>
> I updated the bios of the motherboard to the latest version available, but it
> didn't change anything. Installing Lilo again, and the server boots fine.
>
> The RAID is built with two (slightly differents) PATA drives (both masters of
> each IDE bus).
>
> The menu.lst has been produced by debian's update-grub and contains the right
> options.
> Oh, and I also checked the device.map and it seems good to me (hd0 is mapped
> to /dev/hda and hd1 mapped to /dev/hdc).
>
> Any idea on how I can fix that (or boot a xen dom0 kernel from lilo) ?
> Thanks
>
>
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