On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 01:59:58PM +0000, John Miskinis wrote: > Hello, > > FYI - I remember seeing some posts that indicated that the > CD that was shipped with this book has problems. I > do not know what the "grub>" prompt is all about though.
GRand Unified Bootloader http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ I've never used it, however; all of my GNU/Linux boxen use LILO. > > Debian 2.1 is what I run on my Thinkpad 560, but a friend > copied the CDs for me, from the "official" ones. > > John > > > >Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 14:17:16 +0200 > > > >I'm an old Mac user trying to learn to use Linux. At first Iwas using > >Mandrake 7.1, but I decided to switch to Debian because of the > >philosophy behind it. > >I bought the O'Reilly book "Learning Debian GNU/Linux written by Bill > >McCarty. This book contained an CD with Debian 2.1. > >The book explain how to install the system. But after I'm done and > >restart the laptop (IBM ThinkPad) it stops at a command saying GRUB> and > >nothig happends!!?? What shal I do? > > > >gamenius > >
