Grub Hangs at Loading stage 1.5

[Niall Young]

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 russh347 at charter.net wrote:

> Booting 'hd'
> root (hd0,1)

If you're using menu.lst from fai-bootcd then make sure that your
kernel exists and there is a /vmlinuz symlink to it.

If this doesn't work, Grub may be having trouble finding the first (hd0)
drive on your system, could be a chipset/Grub issue.

> GRUB Loading stage1.5
> GRUB loading, please wait...

Grub documentation will explain precisely what this means, failing after
1.5 etc.

> /boot/grub/menu.lst and the kernel appear to be correct.  I booted a CDlinux iso and tried grub-install again with no result.

Was the kernel definitly built with `make-kpkg`, i.e. a Debian compliant
kernel-image package?

> The machine is has a single 40GB HD with the bulk of the space allocated to hda1 and and extended swap partition of 512MB.  It's a brand-new Intel P4 (2.8Ghz).  We've installed repeatedly and without incident using d-i.

This is the problem then, in Grub (hd0,1) means the second partition
of the first disk - i.e. your swap space.  Try (hd0,0) instead, or
consider creating your swap space as the first partition (apparently
first partition is closest to the centre of the platter and so could
result in the lowest seek times (but this may be wrong, never confirmed
it one way or the other), also makes it easier for sfdisk in FAI
to allocate the rest of the disk to other partitions regardless of size
- re-use the same disk_config file for multiple classes...)

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