On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 15:46 -0700, Raymond C. Rodgers wrote: > Jacques B. wrote: > > Raymond, > > > > Are you getting the grub prompt right away, or after selecting it from > > the Windows boot loader menu? If you are getting it right away, then > > it would appear that grub has replaced your Windows boot loader (which > > is not such a bad thing in the end). I suspect that is not the case > > as you have not indicated that you cannot boot into your Windows > > partition, just your Linux one. > > > > If the Windows boot loader is coming up and allowing you to boot into > > Windows no problem, but when selecting to boot into Linux you get the > > grub prompt, then again the problem lies with grub configuration and > > your Windows boot loader IS working properly from the looks of it > > contrary to what Karl is suggesting. > > > > It is important to know how your system is booting and where it is > > failing. Any advice without knowing this is potentially erroneous > > advice because it may be faulting the wrong thing. > > > > Jacques B. > > > > > Windows is booting and functioning as well as Windows can. (Tongue in > cheek, but no problems have developed recently, and I am sending these > messages from the Windows installation on the problem machine.) The > normal Linux boot process was to see the Windows boot menu, select the > Linux installation, hit Enter, then see the GRUB splash screen with the > countdown timer, which then booted the most recently installed kernel by > default. (Which I've seen as normal.) But, what I'm seeing currently on > the machine is just after selecting the Linux installation and pressing > Enter, are just a black screen, with white text, stating simply "GRUB" > in the upper left corner. I wouldn't exactly call it a prompt as there > is no indication that it's waiting for any input, and nothing appears > when I type. Doing the three fingered salute (control-alt-delete) has no > effect, and in order to get the machine to do anything again, you either > have to hit the reset button or toggle the power. Well, I take that > back, I can play with scroll lock, num lock, and caps lock lights via > their respective keys. :-) ---- You probably need to boot either the installer disk or the rescue disk in rescue mode (this assumes that /boot is on /dev/sda1 per your earlier message - adjust as necessary) 'linux rescue' follow the prompts, networking is likely unnecessary. 'chroot /mnt/sysimage' # confirm here that /boot is where you think it is 'mount' # if it is /dev/sda1... 'grub-install /dev/sda1' #otherwise, adjust as needed -- Craig White <craig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
