RE: (no subject)

[Vizitiu, Ciprian]

> I recently inherited a fujitsu lifebook 635t without floppy 
> or cdrom, not even proper powersupply(had to hack it with 
> paperclips :)) + battery is shot.  So I used a dell latitude 
> to put Redhat 8.0 on it, took out the harddrive and put it in 
> the fujitsu.  But everytime it boots, it loads grub and 
> restarts before the kernel gets uncompressed.  No messages no 
> nothing except a
> white screen. I don't know what's going on.   Maybe I need to 
> change some BIOS settings or give
> the kernel some parameters?  The harddrive boots fine when in 
> the dell latitude but not the fujitsu.  I turned debug on in 
> GRUB but got no messages.  Any ideas?

Can you see the kernel starting to uncompress? If yes, grub's job has
finished *correctly* long time before that. I'd suspect that the kernel
you have is for a different arch e.g. is a 686 kernel and the Lifebook
is 586? Try using a network card to do install via network...

Bottom line, it might NOT be a grub issue at all.