<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Eric Sandeen <<a href="mailto:sandeen@redhat.com" target="_blank">sandeen@redhat.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
> a couple of days ago I received a Dell Vostro 1400.<br>
><br>
> I dumped its windows vista Home edition,<br>
> and install an F8 x86_64 image on it (I just copied the partitions from<br>
> another computer).<br>
> Then, I run grub-install /dev/sda using an F8 install DVD.<br>
><br>
> The problem is that when I tried to boot using the latest kernel<br>
> 2.6.25-6-27.fc8,<br>
> and the newer grub, the boot hanged trying to load initrd.<br>
><br>
> However, I could boot normally using a 2.6.24 or 2.6.23 kernel.<br>
><br>
> Then, I downgraded grub to 0.97-19 and finally I could boot<br>
</div>> to kernel <a href="http://2.6.25." target="_blank">2.6.25.</a> <<a href="http://2.6.25" target="_blank">http://2.6.25</a>.><br>
<div>><br>
> I also noted that kernel 2.6.25 had a setup=0x300 and<br>
> the previous kernels 0x2c00 (the only difference I could see<br>
> loading initrd).<br>
><br>
> My question is: what has changed in grub, and<br>
> if I had run grub-install from the newer grub (0.97-33.1) the issue<br>
> would also be solved or could I get stuck for all kernels (not only for<br>
> 2.6.25).<br>
<br>
</div>I'm not sure of the details of your problem, but just FWIW:<br>
<br>
<a href="https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-4690" target="_blank">https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F8/FEDORA-2008-4690</a><br>
<br>
the latest grub is already headed for F8, for other reasons (handling<br>
the larger ext3 inode size on F9 filesystems).<br>
<font color="#888888"><br></font></blockquote><div><br>The problem is with this latest grub (0.97-33.1). <br>It does not boot my kernel 2.6.25 on this laptop running F8 x86_64.<br>It boots kernel 2.6.24 and 2.6.23, though.<br>
<br>When I downgraded grub to 0.97-19, then kernel 2.6.25 booted just fine.<br>
<br>The only thing is that I did not install using the DVD.<br>I copied the partitions from another computer using partimage. <br>The partitions were previously created with gparted: <br><br>Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on<br>
/dev/sda2 ext3 20G 13G 6.4G 66% /<br>/dev/sda1 ext3 99M 24M 71M 25% /boot<br>/dev/sda4 ext3 124G 12G 107G 10% /home<br><br>(/dev/sda3 is for swapping).<br><br>Of course, the new grub was working well on the computer the partitions<br>
were copied from. To write the MBR on the laptop for the first time, <br>I used the grub-install from the original F8 x86_64 DVD.<br><br>I think the problem is an incompatibility between gparted 0.3.7 <br>(from system-rescueCD 1.0.3) and the new grub.<br>
<br>
</div></div>Anyway, the laptop is working wonderfully well, including the webcam.<br>The only thing I am not able to make work is the digital microphone (but an<br>external analog mic does work fine).<br clear="all"><br>
-- <br>
Paulo Roma Cavalcanti<br>LCG - UFRJ