I've also noticed that the hard drive light goes on for a while after the screen goes black when GRUB should have appeared, so I wonder if the OS is booting but there's a problem with the video card? I don't know why the video could work fine for everything including liveCDs and installation discs but fail when GRUB comes up, but I'm at a loss. It's an AOPEN Geforce2 Model MX200 plug-in card. I can't see any onboard video on this mainboard.
2006/3/24, Levi Waldron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm trying to install Debian on a fairly new machine, a Celeron 2GHz, > ASUS P4S800 mainboard with SiS 648FX chipset, onboard NVidia Geforce > video card, Award BIOS. It worked fine with the proprietary OS it had > when I bought it. > > I just ran the Debian stable business card iso install disc, and > re-partitioned and formatted the hard drive. But when I reboot > without a CD in the drive, when GRUB should come up I get a black > screen instead. Knoppix and Ubuntu Live CDs work fine, which is where > I'm writing this email from. I've also tried using the Debian install > disc as a rescue disc, ie: > > linux root=/dev/hda1 > > but I get a "VFS: Cannot open root device" kernel panic. Perhaps I'm > just not using the rescue disc properly, I've gotten this error before > when compiling a kernel without the --initrd option. > > I noticed that the BIOS had boot virus protection enabled, so I > disabled this, without avail. Perhaps the BIOS is still resetting my > MBR even though this "virus protection" is now disabled, and I have to > do a hard reset of the bios? I'm attaching the file produced by the > command > > dd if=/dev/hda of=/boot/boot.MBR bs=512 count=1 > > in case anyone knows how to read an MBR backup. Any ideas? > > >
