GRUB loops, printing "GRUB"

[Geoffrey Leach]

There are 3 SCSI HDs and no IDE on this system.  Motherboard is Intel Venus 
with a PPro.  The SCSI controller is
and Adaptec 29160N

The BIOS is set to boot from ID 1, which has a freshly-installed RedHat Roswell 
(7.1.94). SCSI ID 0 has a LILO
boot.

The fstab looks like this (parted output available if its essetial)
LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
/dev/sdb2               /dosc                   vfat    noauto          0 0
/dev/sdb3               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
(The root partition is /dev/sdb5)

Grub (grub-0.90-9) is installed in /boot/grub, and /boot is a partition.

# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#          root (hd1,0)
#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sdb5
#          initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sdb1
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.7-2)
        root (hd1,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.7-2 ro root=/dev/sdb5
        initrd /initrd-2.4.7-2.img
title DOS
        rootnoverify (hd1,1)
        chainloader +1

# this device map was generated by anaconda
(fd0)     /dev/fd0
(hd1)     /dev/sdb

The kernel boots from fd0 with no problem.
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Geoffrey Leach
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