Grub Hangs at "Loading stage1.5"

[Russel Hill]

... with no error message. Ctrl-Alt-Delete does not reboot.

We have repeatedly and successfully installed from the d-i installer 
(beta 3+), and booted using grub.  Now we are trying to install using 
FAI and having difficulties.

The machine is a new 2.8MHz P4 on an Intel motherboard with a 40GB HD. 
The primary partition is a 39..5GB type 83.  The remainder of the disk 
is a swap partition.

To all appearences, grub is properly installed.  I've pounded on 
grub-install "(hd0,0)" and the native install procedure in various 
permutations with almost no success.  On one occasion, it started 
booting, but I have no idea what made the difference.

What I'm hoping for is a nudge (or two) to help discover what the 
problem is.

device.map looks like:
(fd0)   /dev/fd0
(hd0)   /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc

The last line of device.map used to look like:
(hd0)   /dev/hda

It didn't make a difference though.

menu.lst looks like:
#=========================================
timeout 10
default 0
color cyan/blue white/blue

title Debian GNU/Linux, vmlinuz-2.6.2
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.2 root=/dev/hda1
#=========================================

The kernel exists at that location and we've booted many machines from 
it (including the one I'm writing this on)

When I install grub natively, this is what happens:
grub> root (hd0,0)
 Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

grub> setup (hd0,0)
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes
 Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
 Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,0)"... failed (this in 
not fatal)
 Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0,0)"... failed (this in 
not fatal)
 Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0,0) /boot/grub/stage2 p 
/boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded
Done.

Any help is appreciated.
Russel Hill

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