[Gllug] Linux box keeps rebooting

Chris Bell chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk
Sun Dec 11 00:49:38 UTC 2005


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
> 
   It may not be the correct answer, but the SATA drivers apparently work
best with the BIOS set for SATA native, not enhanced mode.

-- 
Chris Bell

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