problems booting- RH 8.0

[aaron martinez]

 

Hi, not sure if this is a bug with many partitions/big drives or a combination of the two..or simply some error on my part.

 

 

I just installed rh 8.0 on a western digital 80gig hard drive, asus cusl2 mb, one 3com nic, 1 agp card..  Now that i got it installed,
it won't seem to boot off of the hard drive.  When booting off of the hdd it
just hangs with "GRUB" at the top of the screen.   I made a boot disk that
it boots off of with no problems.  I am posting the syslinux.conf from the
boot disk and the grub.conf from the hdd.  Hopefully someone can tell me
what i'm doin wrong.
I also tossed in my fstab to give some further info.

 

grub.conf:
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd0,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-14)
      root (hd0,0)
      kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi
      initrd /initrd-2.4.18-14.img

 

 

 

syslinux.cfg:

 

default linux
prompt 1
display boot.msg
timeout 100
label linux
      kernel vmlinuz
      append initrd=initrd.img hdc=ide-scsi root=/dev/hda2

 

 

 

The thing that strikes me as strange is that on the bootdisk, root is set to /dev/hda2 / is mounted on the second partition on /dev/hda wouldn't this be /dev/hda1  and /boot is mounted on the first partition which i thought was /dev/hda0  (doesn't redhat follow the normal "start at 0" convention?  Either way, it doesn't seem like EITHER syntax is right.  The grub.conf has root set at (0,0)  which seems like it should be (0,1) and as i say, syslinux.cfg has it at /dev/hda2 which seems like it should be at /dev/hda1.  One additional thing i found odd is that right in the commented out section of the grub.conf, it mentions that since i'm using a /boot partition, all files are relative to /boot/  so why then do the kernel and vmlinuz sections point to a file with a leading /  wouldn't it be like in the syslinux.cfg where there is nothing or perhaps a ./ in front of the files?

 

Here is the fstab:

 

 

 

LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
LABEL=/export           /export                 ext3    defaults        1 2
LABEL=/home             /home                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
LABEL=/tmp              /tmp                    ext3    defaults        1 2
LABEL=/usr              /usr                    ext3    defaults        1 2
LABEL=/var              /var                    ext3    defaults        1 2
LABEL=/var/log          /var/log                ext3    defaults        1 2
LABEL=/var/spool        /var/spool              ext3    defaults        1 2
/dev/hda10              swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
/dev/cdrom              /mnt/cdrom              iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0                /mnt/floppy             auto    noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

 

 

 

fdisking /dev/hda shows that the /boot system IS the first partiton and that / IS the second partition by comparing partition sizes.

 

 

 

Thanks again.

 

 

 

Aaron