Hi i'm having quite the problem with grub and booting into my system.
i am installing debian-sarge (27032004 release) and can't seem to get beyond the first reboot. when i do reboot all i get is GRUB GRUB GRUB... all over the screen repeating infinitely so it appears to be a problem with the boot loader and its installation in the MBR (?). the HD setup is as follows: hda - 120GB drive (/) hdb - 20GB drive (/backup) hdc - 80GB drive (/home) i have tried different combinations including separate /boot partitions - all to no avail. grub is installed on hda. previously i had redhat9, mandrake9.2 and suse9 on this machine (individually - not mutli-boot). all of these worked fine (i've been weaning myself onto debian). only now when i installed debian is it causing problems. i also installed the same debian distro on another machine and didn't have problems - so it must be the combination of this machine and debian-sarge. i have checked the bios and it is booting into the correct drive. i remembered a suse install bootdisk i created had a boot from hd option so i used this selecting boot from hd and only then did i get the grub menu -sequence was: boot disk -> select boot from hd -> grub menu. ok, so now at a command prompt. i reinstalled grub on the mbr using: grub> root (hd0,0) grub> setup (hd0) the above said it was successful. but it still didn't boot and came up with the same GRUB all over the screen. i then cleared the MBR completely scrubbing it with zeros and then reinstalling grub on the machine and the MBR. still no go. i searched the web for similar issues and found a few. most seemed to be related to bios LBA settings. the bios was set to autodetect the drives and always defaulted to LBA anyway. i did force LBA on it through the bios - this didn't help either. i also tried installing grub with setup --force-lba (hd0) but this too didn't work. i'm stumped!! it worked fine for other distros - now its stuffed and all i get is GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB all over my screen over and over. i have checked /boot/grub contents and all images/files are there and look ok. if anyone has any ideas i would really appreciate it. i'm getting desparate here. i'm determined to have a debian box up and running!! any suggestions at all.... thanks heaps... Takis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
