Trying to install GRUB but getting "L 99 99 99" error!

John Sabean docmani at zahadum.net
Fri Apr 1 19:42:30 UTC 2005


I've been working at building a kickstart disk for a RedHat Enterprise 4  
configuration that I have (using the demo/trial version).

My ks.cfg file has the following bootloader command:

bootloader --location=mbr --md5pass=$blahblahblah

When the host reboots, it prints out "L 99 99 99 99....". Thats a LILO  
error, isn't it??? (and yes, this disk previously had LILO loaded on it)

I've even gone in, in rescue mode, run chroot, and performed 'grub-install  
/dev/sda', and rebooting I get the same error.

I'm at a total loss!

Here are some goodies from my ks.cfg file:


install
cdrom
lang en_US.UTF-8
langsupport --default=en_US.UTF-8 en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
xconfig --card "ATI Mach64" --videoram 8128 --hsync 30-61 --vsync 56-76  
--resolution 800x600 --depth 16
network --network setup
rootpw --iscrypted $blablahblah
firewall --enabled --port=22:tcp
selinux --enforcing
authconfig --enableshadow --enablemd5
timezone America/New_York
# The following is the partition information you requested
# Note that any partitions you deleted are not expressed
# here so unless you clear all partitions first, this is
# not guaranteed to work
clearpart --all
zerombr yes
part /boot --fstype "ext3" --ondisk sda --start 1 --end 13
part /usr --fstype "ext3" --ondisk sda --start 14 --end 2563
part /opt --fstype "ext3" --ondisk sda --start 2564 --end 3838
part /export --fstype "ext3" --ondisk sda --start 3839 --end 5113
part /tmp --fstype "ext3" --ondisk sda --start 5114 --end 6133
part /usr/local --fstype "ext3" --ondisk sda --start 6134 --end 6898
part /var --fstype "ext3" --ondisk sda --start 6899 --end 7535
part swap --ondisk sda --start 7536 --end 7599
part / --fstype "ext3" --ondisk sda --start 7600 --end 8924
part /junk --fstype "ext3" --ondisk sdb --start 1 --end 8924
bootloader --driveorder=sda,sdb --location=mbr --md5pass=$blahblahblah

%packages
... etc

Any help would be greatly appriciated.





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