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Re: grub disaster with FC4 & XFS

To: Fabrice Ferrero <fabriceferrero@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: grub disaster with FC4 & XFS
From: Lonni J Friedman <netllama@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2005 22:21:55 -0700
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On 7/3/05, Fabrice Ferrero <fabriceferrero@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Net Llama! a écrit :
> 
> > Not sure if anyone is aware of this mess of a bug:
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=160444
> >
> > Basically grub pukes all over itself when trying to interact with XFS
> > filesystems, resulting in an unbootable, or barely bootable FC4
> > installation.
> >
> > Any gurus here know of a solution?
> >
> > Yes, i know, this is really a FC/grub issue, but since its specific to
> > XFS, i thought someone might have run into it and found a workaround
> > and/or fix.
> >
> I don't know if it can help you, but I had this problem too, but I
> installed 3 workstations after this workaround.
> 
> - When the grub slpash screen appears, move the line to the selected
> kernel and edit the last options: replace "root=label=/"  by
> "root=/dev/hda1" (put the good slice corresponding to your / partition)

I don't get the grub splash screen, or anything at all.  All I get is
a grub prompt with nothing else.  It looks like the stage2 bootloader
isn't getting called, and I can't figure out why.
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L. Friedman                                    netllama@xxxxxxxxx
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