grub was gone! What happened?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 12:08:55 +0100, Emiliano Brunetti wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 10:56, John Sutherland wrote:
> > Someone being funny with "fdisk /mbr" in Win? What did the machine do 
> > instead of loading grub?
> 
> It hangs. Black screen saying a very sad "GRUB" and nothing else.

That "GRUB" is the status output of GRUB's first stage bootloader code in
MBR. It just didn't manage to load the second stage bootloader code.
The 2nd stage would print more.

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