FC4 boot hangs on SATA drive

[Anil Kumar Sharma]

I do have a SATA drive on which FC4 installed without incident. But I have a 
dual boot with XP. I am using LVM, probably u should have a /boot out of LVM 
if you are using LVM.
This is part of LVM docs.
 Anil.
 On 6/29/05, Alan M. Evans <ame1 at extratech.com> wrote: 
> 
> Hello!
> 
> We just got a couple of new machines here that I am tasked with setting
> up to be internal servers. Each has only a single SATA hard drive for
> storage.
> 
> I install FC4, which goes without incident. Reboot after install, and
> the boot process stops cold at "GRUB loading stage 2..." message. I can
> boot from the rescue CD and peruse the installed volumes with no
> trouble.
> 
> I've searched and found probably a hundred questions online regarding
> similar symptoms. (Most pre-FC4, and most having some element of
> dual-booting (I'm not dual-booting).) None have suggested anything that
> has helped.
> 
> At this point I don't know what else to do. I can post the contents of
> any config file or the output of any program - I just need to know where
> to start. What I don't want to do is hand these SATA drives back to my
> boss and tell him to save them for some WinXP install because I can't
> use them with Linux!
> 
> Thanks, all
> -Alan
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