Grub HELP!
 

I just did a fresh install of RH9. When grub boots it doesn't do anything. It sits there on "grub>". I took a look at /boot/grub/grub.conf and everything looks normal.

When I try to mount "root (hd0,0)". It tells me that "Selected disk does not exist". And a similar error when trying to load the kernel manually.

Any suggestions?

Straitfaced,

If you installed grub on the first sector of your boot partition rather than on the Master Boot Record (mbr), that might cause your problem. If you can boot from a Red Hat 9 emergency boot floppy (made at the time of installation or subsequently with "mkbootdisk"), that would tend to confirm that suspicion. If you have already installed grub on the mbr, then I don't know what the problem is.

Actually problem solved. I checked the bios because that I read if the bios was confused, so would grub. The main HDD was on the secondary ide cable. So I switched the ide cables on the motherboard and grub loaded right away. Thanks for the post though. :)