Fedora 9 and GRUB

[gunpoint]

Hey I've been having problems with my Fedora 9 installation. I did a brand new installation of 9 and every time I try to boot it up all I get is Grub loading Stage2. Now what I did was go into rescue mode and did #grub-install /dev/sda --recheck and now I'm getting Grub loading Stage 1.5 and Grub is loading, please wait. Also the computer locks up when it gets to that point, but the cursor keeps blinking.

The hardware I'm using is:
AMD X2 Athlon 5000+
Seagate Barricuda 40gig IDE
Lite-On DvD drive IDE
2 gigs of ddr2 800
Geforce 7600 gt
Abit KN9 SLI

Been working on it for three days and I've yet to find a solution. I scoured the internet and this problem doesn't occur to much. Thanks in advance.

[yancek]

What else do you have on the computer, only Fedora? Use your Fedora CD to get the output of the 'fdisk -l' command to post here.

[gunpoint]

I don't have anything else on the drive. Here is the fdisk -l:

Disk /dev/sda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00e879a

Device     Boot  Start  End   Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1  *       1    25    2007841  83  Linux
/dev/sda2          26   4865  38877300 8e  Linux LVM

Disk /dev/dm-01: 37.6 GB, 37681627136 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4581 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00000000

Disk /dev/dm-0 doesn't contain a valid partition table

Disk /dev/dm-1: 2080 MB, 2080374784 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 252 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x30307800

Disk /dev/dm-1 doesn't contain a valid partition table

[yancek]

Do you get the Grub Error 2 along with the 'Grub Loading stage1.5'?? Sometimes you just need to re-install Grub. I don't use Fedora and haven't used LVM so am not sure if that has any impact on Grub. You could try loading your Fedora CD, logging in as root and running command to re-install Grub:

root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
quit

The lines from your previous post regarding invalid partition table look problematic. Don't use LVM so I've no advice on that.

[gunpoint]

I haven't gotten any errors with GRUB it only says it's loading and does nothing else. Should I log into root through rescue mode? If so I have already done that and I get a syntax error when ever I put in root (hd0,0).

[yancek]

You have a USB stick, was that plugged in when you did the install? Accidentally put Grub there?? Don't know what else to suggest. When you enter root (hd0,0), do you have a space between root and (hd0,0). That's the only thing I can think of with syntax error.

[gunpoint]

I didn't have a usb with GRUB in the computer at the time, nothing else was there to affect the install, and also I had a brain fart a little while ago, sorry.

Here is what root (hd0,0) said:

grub> root (hd0,0)
root (hd0,0)
 Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83

And here is what setup (hd0) did:

grub> setup (hd0)
setup (hd0)
 Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
 Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes
 Checking if "/grub/stage2" xists... yes
 Checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
 Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 23 sectors are embedded.
succeeded
 Running "install /grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+23 p (hd0,0)/grub/stage2 /grub/grub.conf"...
succeeded
Done.

And I still get this:

GRUB loading Stage1.5.


GRUB loading, please wait...

No errors, no nothing.

UPDATE:
I feel silly, all I needed to do was jump the BIOS. Thank you for your help and time yancek.