CentOS - Jul 2010 - Hardware freezes on Dell Optiplex 320 while booting (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499204)

Steps tried:

Install from centos 5.5 x86_64 disc, locks up after reboot at GRUB (FAILS)

Boot centos 5.5 x86_64 install drop to shell and chroot (WORKS)

Boot fedora 13 isolinux disc, choose boot hard disk, launches centos 5.5 grub
(WORKS)

Compiled and installed grub package from fedora 13 on centos 5.5 x86_64 same
problem. (FAILS)

Boot fedora 13 isolinux disc, choose boot hard disk, launches newer grub
installed on centos (WORKS)

Installed fedora 13 x86_64 default settings for disk layout.  (WORKS)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499204

Looking for advice on getting this hardware to boot unattended.

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On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Jason Pyeron <jpyeron at pdinc.us>
wrote:
> Boot fedora 13 isolinux disc, choose boot hard disk, launches newer grub
> installed on centos (WORKS)
>
> Installed fedora 13 x86_64 default settings for disk layout. ?(WORKS)
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499204
>
> Looking for advice on getting this hardware to boot unattended.
If I understand the situation correctly, you can boot Fedora13 without
any extra steps. Then, can you add a stanza for CentOS in the F13's
grub.conf file and boot from there?  Or use chainloader if CentOS has
grub installed in its partition.

Akemi

Jason Pyeron wrote:
> Steps tried:
>
> Install from centos 5.5 x86_64 disc, locks up after reboot at GRUB (FAILS)
> Boot centos 5.5 x86_64 install drop to shell and chroot (WORKS)
> Boot fedora 13 isolinux disc, choose boot hard disk, launches centos 5.5
> grub
> (WORKS)
>
> Compiled and installed grub package from fedora 13 on centos 5.5 x86_64
> same problem. (FAILS)
>
> Boot fedora 13 isolinux disc, choose boot hard disk, launches newer grub
> installed on centos (WORKS)
>
> Installed fedora 13 x86_64 default settings for disk layout.  (WORKS)
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499204
>
> Looking for advice on getting this hardware to boot unattended.
Let me get this straight: you've installed CentOS 5.5? Have you checked
/boot/grub/device.map, so that it looks something like
#################
# this device map was generated by anaconda
(hd0)     /dev/sda
#################
Do you have a /boot/grub/grub.conf?

        mark

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Jason Pyeron <jpyeron at pdinc.us>
wrote:
> Steps tried:
>
> Install from centos 5.5 x86_64 disc, locks up after reboot at GRUB (FAILS)
>
> Boot centos 5.5 x86_64 install drop to shell and chroot (WORKS)
>
> Boot fedora 13 isolinux disc, choose boot hard disk, launches centos 5.5
grub
> (WORKS)
>
> Compiled and installed grub package from fedora 13 on centos 5.5 x86_64
same
> problem. (FAILS)
>
> Boot fedora 13 isolinux disc, choose boot hard disk, launches newer grub
> installed on centos (WORKS)
>
> Installed fedora 13 x86_64 default settings for disk layout. ?(WORKS)
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=499204
>
> Looking for advice on getting this hardware to boot unattended.
What does "FAILS" actually mean? I assume that you are only getting to
the grub menu when booting from an F13 CD and chainloading to the
CentOS grub.

If my assumption about the grub menu is correct, one of your grub
stages must be broken. Have you tried re-installing grub with
grub-install or at the grub cli?

What is the output of "fdisk -l", "cat /etc/fstab", and
"cat
/boot/grub/device.map"?