CentOS - Jul 2010 - Grub booting issue

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

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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....

Have you <alt-F3> or <alt-F4>, and seen what it's logging?

         mark

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?

Where is the filesystem containing /boot located?
> And then hangs. It is aleged that Grub probes aroung the bios which
chrashes on
> optiplex 320s
but not supporting evidence is given.  Is your BIOS up to date?