Grub hangs Fedora 7 1

[Grub3r]

Hi,

just installed Fedora 7 on a clean system and made this layout.

partitions:
sda:
sda1: /boot 100mb
sda2: / ~8GB
...
...
...
all formatted with ext3

choosed to install grub on /boot and NOT on mbr.

after installation completed, and system restarted, it hangs with word "GRUB"

tried:
booted to rescue and checked the grub.conf

but, dont really know how to proceed.
it looks like it's fine, but something must be wrong.

Please advise where to begin...

Any help would be really appreciated( can be of any help if needed this night(0138am here now))

-Grub3r

Regards Dan

 

[Grub3r]

Can's seem to find the "edit" button, replying to my own thread.

is this me or is Fedora 7 reads drives like "sd", I only have ide drives and it says "sda", "sda1" and so on. but in old fedora core 5 it was "hda", "hda1" and so on.

is that a new formatting of Fedora 7?

Is there any requirements for Grub when installed on a partition? does it have to be bootable,primary? filesystems?

Just cant understand why it wouldn't boot...
Is there a way to check that?

many thanks.

Regards Dan

 

[geirendre]

Well the BIOS tries to read the MBR of your harddrive to find a bootloader,
but if you didn't install anything there, it will fail.
So I think you need to install GRUB in your MBR.

grub-install '(hd0)'

and se if this helps.

http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/

 

[Grub3r]

Thanks for the reply,

will try this and report back...

have looked at the manual already.

Regards Dan

 

[Grub3r]

grub-install /dev/sda" helped, thanks for pointing that bootloader has to be installed in mbr... *star*

Regards Dan

 

[slashtoe]

This is killing me. I have the same problem with 7 seeing my IDE drive as sda. Installed grub there but then grub couldn't find the kernel -- is it looking for hda, which per FC7 is not present? If I go back to 6 and start over can I get a clean install?

 

[geirendre]

You can try editing your grub.conf and change hdaX for sdaX
and see if it helps.

 

[DrD123]

Hi.

The "scsi" naming devices (sdX[1-4]) is the new standard for FC7.

It would be best to leave them as such, and not to use the "ide" naming (hdX[1-4]).

Good Luck
DrD