GRUB fails -- dead in water -- HELP
Lauri
lauri at ruja.ee
Tue Apr 25 13:12:09 UTC 2006
> geoff at hughes.net wrote:
>
>> Boot-up stops with "GRUB" (no other info) where the menu should be.
>>
>> Booted Knoppix. All files are where they should be. / and /boot are
>> readable.
>>
>> Did an update from the FC5 DVD. No files were updated.
>>
>> Re-loaded FC5. Same problem.
>>
>> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
> Do you mean you get the grub> prompt?
>
> If so you could try running grub interactively - something like:
>
> grub> root (hd0,1) [if /boot is on /dev/hda2]
> grub> kernel /vmlinuz... ro root=...
> grub> initrd /initrd...
> grub> boot
>
> I'd guess you might have an error in /boot/grub/grub.conf ?
>
I had the same problem some time ago, reinstalling grub worked:
grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)
Grub starts counting disks and paritions from 0, while Linux does from 1.
Lauri
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