RH9 -> FC2 breaks GRUB?

[Mike Burger]

On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Andrew Leahy wrote:

> I'm in the process of upgrading a bunch of systems across campus from 
> Redhat 9 to Fedora Core 2 (via a complete re-install) and I've run 
> across an interesting problem.  In two of the four different types of 
> systems I've upgraded, GRUB no longer works after installing FC2.  The 
> symptoms are that after the initial installation the system will hang on 
> the reboot with only the word "GRUB" displayed in the upper left-hand 
> corner of the screen.  The systems where grub continues to work after 
> the upgrade use Asus A7M266-D and Supermicro 370DL3 motherboards.  The 
> systems where grub no longer works are based on Asus P4B and Asus 
> CUV4X-D motherboards.  I mention the motherboards because in at least 
> one case (Asus P4B) the solution was to upgrade to the latest BIOS. 
> However, that trick hasn't worked with the CUV4X-D motherboard.
> 
> One other difference between the two systems is that the systems where 
> grub fails have two hard drives (with linux being installed on the 
> master disk).  However, I've done the installation with the other drive 
> disconnected and come across the same problem.

The only problem I ran into, in a RHL9 -> FC2 upgrade, was that the GRUB 
didn't get updated with the new kernel.  Once I manually updated it, it 
was fine, but I was a bit confused, for a short time.

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