[NTLUG:Discuss] 64 bit process Linux installation

[Leroy Tennison]

Dennis Rice wrote:
> Hopefully someone can provide some insight.
>
> I have a 64 bit process that I am attempting to install Linux on.  The 
> installation appeared to go well, but on reboot, it came up with a grub 
> prompt.  I do have a lot of "extra" partitions - could that cause a problem?
>
> Hardware is a Gigabyte MB, 1 GB RAM, Primary Master Drive is 250 GB, 
> Primary Slave is 40 GB.  "/" and "/boot" reside on the primary master. 
> "/home" and "/var" reside on the primary slave.  I have set up several 
> extra partitions on the master for extra data and backup.
>
> Appreciate any thoughts.
>
> Dennis
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What distro are you using?  We seem to have had a number of GRUB issues 
recently.  I had one on CentOS4 just using yum.  A couple of ideas:

Re-install grub

Second, can you load Linux manually from grub?  I assume you know the 
hard drives basic layout so do

cat (hd?)/boot/grub/menu.lst               (or grub.conf)

where ? is replaced by the correct number.

Write down what's shown and try to execute it manually.

If you're not sure about the hard drive layout do

find etc/fstab
cat (hd?)/etc/fstab                        note your boot partition then
cat (hd?)/boot/grub ...

Hope that helps.