Failure to boot into second stage

[João Inácio]

i had the same problem recently with an old bx board and a 8Gb harddrive.
the setup went fine, but upon restart it would refuse to boot (sorry, 
can't remember the exact error)

what happened was that although the setup recognized my whole hdd, i 
then realized that by using bios autodetect funcion and lba mode on, it 
recognized my hardrive as 500Mb or so! :o

disabling lba mode in the bios worked for me, hope it helps.

Cheers,
João Inácio

Greg Till wrote:

> I'm stumped. I finished the first stage install and rebooted, but the 
> reboot hangs right before I would expect GRUB to kick in (or something 
> to happen... anything). I just get a flashing cursor.
>
> I installed to hde, a new 80GB Maxtor on the primary ATA controller 
> (CMD 648) on my ASUS CUBX (old 440BX board). The BIOS is set to boot 
> off of this controller. I've had this setup work before using Fedora, 
> so I don't know what's the matter here other than a bad disk, which 
> seems unlikely given that it formatted correctly and allowed the files 
> to be written to it in stage one.
>
> The only other possibility that occurs to me is that the 80GB drive is 
> simply too large for the CUBX. But I haven't seen anything to support 
> that conclusion, either.
>
> Suggestions?
>