system hangs on startup

[tiziana]

Hi, I have a problem with grub on fedora 2 with SATA disk Raid 1 controller 3ware 8506.
During startup, after bios check I don't see the grub menu but only a cursor
flashes. If I use boot cd the system starts.
In rescue mode I re-install grub with grub-install command but when I reboot I have the
same problem.
What can I do?

Thanks in advance

Tiziana

[Knudson]

have you got any IDE hdd-drive?

I noticed that grub install itself to the first IDE hdd-drive he finds, even if you install FC3 on a S-ATA disk !

post here your grub.conf file (/boot/grub/grub.conf)

[tiziana]

The disk configuration is raid1 hardware, so the system recognizes only disk /dev/sda. Where does grub install itself? I think in both disk or not?
This is my grub.conf
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core (2.6.8-1.521)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.521 ro root=LABEL=/ rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.8-1.521.img

[Knudson]

ouch, i've never had to setup a raid so i dunno :/
you might want to check out this

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/doc...AID-HOWTO.html

have you tried also with lilo maybe?

[ajbattrick]

This an officially recognised bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla....cgi?id=114690