will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > any reason why grub would hang on startup? i see "GRUB" after > the bios stuff, and then... nothing.
Can you type at this point? Maybe what you are seeing is the GRUB shell prompt. Try things like "help" to get a help. > a friend suggested trying windo~1 fdisk to make it a fat32 > drive, wiping previous linux stuff off, then retrynig with a new > linux (ext3) partition scheme. i tried that (i think) and still, > hang on boot after seeing "GRUB". Did you read the GRUB manual? :-) > is there a trick i missed in writing the boot sectors? (lilo > worked on the machine in the past...) The trick is to have a working /boot/grub/menu.lst (or /boot/boot/grub/menu.lst in case that /boot is an extra partition). Usually you have to do the following steps: 1. RTFM :-) 2. install grub using grub-install as it is described in the manual 3. run update-grub to create a basic menu.lst 4. Edit that menu.lst to let update-grub know about your partitions 5. run update-grub again 6. Reboot the system and you should get a boot menu and also the ability to use the grub shell Hope that helps Rainer -- Rainer König, Diplom-Informatiker (FH), Augsburg, Germany -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
