FC3 DVD install Grub problems

[Grant Limberg]

pankaj wrote:
> Folks,
> I've been having issues doing a clean install of FC3 on various
> machines.  
> 
> I've tried the install on two machines:
> 1) a Dell Dimension XPS 1.8MHz, 512MB RAM, 1 IDE 80GB + 1 IDE 250GB
> drives and an nVidia GeForce 3 card.  
> 2) IBM Thinkpad 600E 300MHz PII, 192MB RAM, 1 10GB drive
> 
> The install goes fine until the time to install GRUB.  It's at this
> point that the install doesn't automatically reboot so I do a soft
> reboot.  Upon booting, the GRUB boot menu doesn't come up.

I had a problem like this on my desktop machine.  When I switched over 
to one of the virtual consoles, I noticed that the grub-install process 
had frozen.  I had to kill it, chroot to the drive i was installing to 
and 'grub-install /dev/hda' in order to get it to work.

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