[Gllug] Linux box keeps rebooting

[David Reed]

Chris Bell wrote:

>Some time ago,
>
>On Thu 08 Dec, Hong Chyr wrote:
>  
>
>>Hi all
>>
>>Got myself a nice PC (new!) and wiped off the copy of XP to make room 
>>for FC3. Thought I'd be happy as a clam when the machine finishes 
>>installing FC3. Unfortunately, when GRUB loads, the machine will just 
>>reboot and it goes into this reboot loop.
>>
>>The PC is P4-3.0 and comes with a 200GB SATA hard drive. When running 
>>the installation, FC3 seemed to detect  the driver correctly as /sda. I 
>>have created 3 partitions: sda1 to be mounted as / (30GB), sda2 to be 
>>mounted as home (168GB), sda3 as swap (~1GB).
>>
>>Is GRUB the problem? I can't even get into the GRUB prompt, it reboots 
>>just when the words "GRUB loading stage 2" comes up.
>>
>>Help please!!
>>
>>Hong
>>
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>>
>   It may not be the correct answer, but the SATA drivers apparently work
>best with the BIOS set for SATA native, not enhanced mode.
>
>  
>
Well, it might not be the correct answer, but at least its an answer to 
the question, as opposed to . . . well, who cares.

In fact, I have encountered a similar problem with the SATA drive with 
more or less the same result. Because I don't have the expertise of the 
great and good round here, I came across a solution, but a desperately 
inelegant one, when I rebooted having left the SUSE installation DVD in 
the tray by accident. That got me to stage two and the boot menu. So, I 
leave the DVD in the tray, but I wish I didn't have to. I have XP and 
SUSE10 for 64 bit installed at the moment. I did have Kubuntu as well 
but X-windows kept failing, so that has been wiped. I had tried to get 
into grub.conf under Kubuntu, but the screen failed before I could do 
so. Maybe I will have another go under SUSE.

David Reed
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