RH el 3.0 u3 on HP dl380 - SUMMARY

[De Boeser, Tom]

  It turns out no matter what I did the system always stopped at 
"Loading Grub Stage 2...".  After a few installs and HP support 
suggesting that /boot, and / need to be the first partitions, I looked 
at the advanced settings for the "Boot loader".
  Son-of-a-Gun!!! We have have this system ( and others ), connected to 
an EVA5000 via fibre channel.  It turns out that for whatever reason RH 
wanted to put Grub on the the EVA connection.  Funny thing is that the 
EVA was not configured to "present" any disks to this system, the system 
could only "see" the EVA controllers. 
  Since the installer never gave me a choice to put Grub locally, 
un-plugging the HBA's forced the installer to put grub on the local disk.

Arg.  After that everthing installed and booted fine.

Thanks for the suggestions and help,

Tom

RUSHE John (AXA-TECH-UK) wrote:

>You might need to specify kernel boot time options in grub.conf,
>although if memory serves me correctly you would have needed to have
>specified the options at the boot: prompt when running the install... I
>am thinking maybe lba=32, linear or load module options perhaps ?
>Probably barking up the wrong tree but, you never know!! Might be worth
>checking it out on a google search (look at your hardware config, scsi,
>usb, drives etc. first and then see if you can find anything via google
>search)
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