ThinkPad T22 boot fails at Loading Stage 2

[James Martino]

Hi,
        I hope someone can give me a clue as to how to track this down.
I am a grub newbie, but have been using various linuces for years. I
have been looking at this for a week now, with no success; I
sincerely hope I'm not wasting your time with something stupid.

        The machine is a ThinkPad T22 (2647 8EU), running Caldera's
Open Linux Workstation 3.1. Grub is on the MBR of the only IDE disk.

My partitions:

/dev/hda1    *     1    550   4157968+  83  Linux          (/)
/dev/hda2       551    570     151200    82  Linux swap 
/dev/hda3       571  1600    7786800  83  Linux  (/usr)
/dev/hda4     1601   2584   7439040  83  Linux  (/home)

The machine does not boot from the hard disk  - it shows 
its IBM ThinkPad screen, then 

GRUB Loading Stage 2...

for about two seconds, and then throws the machine back to its IBM
ThinkPad screen. The loop repeats until I turn off power.

I have to instead boot from the install CD, stop the installation
procedure, and edit the menu.lst from the CD to end up  as
follows:

root (fd0)
kernel /vmlinuz vga=274 nosmp noapic quiet root=/dev/hda1 BOOT_IMAGE=boot
initrd /initrd.gz

I can then boot.
Right now, this is how I am using the system :-(


The lizard-generated menu.lst in /boot/grub is

#
#/boot/grub/menu.lst - generated by Lizard
#


# options

timeout = 5
splashscreen = (hd0,0)/boot/message.col31

default = 0

title = Linux
root = (hd0,0)
kernel = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-modular vga=274 quiet root=/dev/hda1

The /boot/grub/device.map file is:
(fd0) /dev/fd0
(hd0) /dev/hda

The installation of grub was (presumably) according to /etc/grub.conf:

root (hd0,0)
install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,0) /boot/grub/stage2 0x8000 
(hd0,0)/boot/grub/menu.lst
install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0)  /boot/grub/stage2 0x8000 
(hd0,0)/boot/grub/menu.lst
quit


Setup boot order is ATAPI CD, then hard disk (then other stuff).

 Thank you for any light you may be able to shed on this. 

Jim Martino