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pescobar
14th April 2005, 09:47 PM
System info:
Tyan Tiger K8W
Dual Opteron 246 processors
2GB ECC PC3200
Seagate 300GB SATA HDD on /dev/sda, using the sil_sata driver (detected automatically).
Windows 2003 on /dev/sda1
FC3 on /dev/sda2

I just finished a clean install of Fedora Core 3 (the 32-bit edition) on my dual-processor workstation, and GRUB won't start--I can't even get to the menu or prompt. It just spontaneously reboots. I get the same results when GRUB is installed to /dev/sda and when it's installed to /dev/sda2 and launched via NTLOADER.

Any suggestions?
wtogami
15th April 2005, 12:39 AM
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=49276
The procedure that I wrote in this thread will solve your problem.
pescobar
16th April 2005, 01:41 PM

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=49276
The procedure that I wrote in this thread will solve your problem.

Thanks, I'll give it a shot when I get back to work on Monday.

Curiously, GRUB installed and ran perfectly when I put it on /dev/fd0 (a floppy disk) rather than /dev/sda... so I've been using a boot loader floppy for the last little while.