Re: GRUB -- hangs on boot

2003-01-21 Thread Jason Greenwood
Why not just use LILO?? Cheers Jason will trillich wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:53:54PM -0600, will trillich wrote: any reason why grub would hang on startup? i see "GRUB" after the bios stuff, and then... nothing. On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:01:

Re: GRUB -- hangs on boot

2003-01-21 Thread will trillich
On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 11:23:27AM +1100, Geoff Crompton wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:32:30PM +, Tim wrote: > > Maybe the MBR has been altered? Run GrUB from a floppy, and > > > root (hd0,0) <-if hd0,0 is your linux root partition > > > setup (hd0) <-places into MBR > > Wh

Re: GRUB -- hangs on boot

2003-01-21 Thread will trillich
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:53:54PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > > any reason why grub would hang on startup? i see "GRUB" after > > the bios stuff, and then... nothing. On Tue, Jan 21, 2003 at 09:01:25AM +0100, Qian Gong wrote: > Did you check the file device.map in your grub directory? If ther

Re: GRUB -- hangs on boot

2003-01-21 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 09:29:56PM +0100, Rainer Koenig wrote: > 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

Re: GRUB -- hangs on boot

2003-01-21 Thread will trillich
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 04:28:39PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:53:54PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > | any reason why grub would hang on startup? i see "GRUB" after > | the bios stuff, and then... nothing. > > I bet you don't have the MBR configured correctly.

Re: GRUB -- hangs on boot

2003-01-21 Thread Qian Gong
Did you check the file device.map in your grub directory? If there is nothing, you should create one. Qian On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:53:54PM -0600, will trillich wrote: > any reason why grub would hang on startup? i see "GRUB" after > the bios stuff, and then... nothing. > > a friend suggested

Re: GRUB -- hangs on boot

2003-01-20 Thread Geoff Crompton
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 11:32:30PM +, Tim wrote: > Maybe the MBR has been altered? Run GrUB from a floppy, and > > root (hd0,0) <-if hd0,0 is your linux root partition > > setup (hd0) <-places into MBR > Where root(hd0,0) defines the partition that the grub files can be found on

Re: GRUB -- hangs on boot

2003-01-20 Thread Tim
Maybe the MBR has been altered? Run GrUB from a floppy, and > root (hd0,0) <-if hd0,0 is your linux root partition > setup (hd0) <-places into MBR This worked for me once before...hope it helps you! Tim will trillich wrote: > any reason why grub would hang on startup? i see "GRUB" af

Re: GRUB -- hangs on boot

2003-01-20 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:53:54PM -0600, will trillich wrote: | any reason why grub would hang on startup? i see "GRUB" after | the bios stuff, and then... nothing. I bet you don't have the MBR configured correctly. Here is a scenario which will show what you're seeing : 1) load grub on a f

Re: GRUB -- hangs on boot

2003-01-20 Thread Rainer Koenig
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 win

GRUB -- hangs on boot

2003-01-20 Thread will trillich
any reason why grub would hang on startup? i see "GRUB" after the bios stuff, and then... nothing. 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 bo