> > Or maybe the selected shell didn't initialize, > including grub's if this > is at that point?
I managed to emerge grub-0.96 finally onto the non-booting machine hoping that would turn the trick, and ran grub-install. The result was the same as near the start of this thread: GRUB Loading stage1.5 GRUB Loading please wait... then nothing. Then I realised the one word GRUB appearing in upper left corner of the screen is just a truncated version of the above. As before, character keystrokes have no effect. Seems like the process gets halted midway. But it's not a complete crash, ie, ctrl-alt-del is still effective. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list