On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 23:30:08 +0100, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > hmmm was just wondering, have one machine down, completely due to the > malfunction of grub....
Confirmed here. I cannot reinstall grub (okay, I can, from grub-floppy; and it tells me 'success'. But when I reboot, the grub menu doesn't come up; but the kernel is loaded immediately.) I also notice that the screen is almost unreadable; the characters completely distorted; some vertical dotted lines are visible; the characters like 'smear' all over the screen. No, hold your breath; when X starts everything is fine and okay. It's getting even stranger: when I boot from grub-floppy, the same kernel; same commands, everything is fine; the characters are normally visible while the lines of the boot screen flush by. As mentioned, all this started with the latest kernel-update (2.6.8) on Sarge. Also remarkable, I run two almost identical machines, and it only happened on one (DELL Inspiron 8100). My question to Debian and grub: what might have happened during that update ? How is it that I can install grub from floppy; successfully !; and still it is not called, but the kernel booted on its own ? > firing up a knoppix and launching grub-install > had no effect either... installing lilo neither .... quite clue less > about what's happening! > >> I'm using the latest grub update in Sarge with no problem. Do we have >> the same version? I have version 0.95+cvs20040624-10. I also have the one from cvs.... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
