On Sun, 29 May 2005 18:28:02 -0400, "Marty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > KS wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > Today, I booted my dual boot Debian and Windows box to update virus > > definitions in the Windows partition. After using Windows for about > > 5min, I shutdown the machine to boot to Debian. After selecting kernel > > 2.6.11 to boot in, the screen just showed the kernel, bzimage, boot > > commands and stalled there. Nothing happened after that, just a blinking > > cursor! (same behaviour for single user and older kernels). > > > > Any guesses to the possible problems will be highly appreciated. > > There are two standard boot loaders in debian, lilo and grub, and there > a number of commercial boot loaders available which also can boot debian.
I'm using Grub. > Each of them can be used in a variety of ways to do single or multi-stage > OS boots, and each method provides different possible points of failure, > and each boot loader gives different diagnostic signals or hints when it > fails. As I said above, it stops after the kernel, bzimage, and boot commands. It never reaches the kernel! And no error messages are displayed :( > > If the kernel loads but fails during the init process, then that's a > completely different problem. Your description does not match that. It doesn't even start the kernel loading stage. It is as if Grub is there, but no Linux installation! I feel a bit handicapped as I can't even copy the text that I see after I hit [Enter] to boot from Grub. Thanks /KS -- KS [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
