Karl Larsen wrote:
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. :-)
Thanks Jacques,
Raymond
Well this says that grub is not doing what it should. The windows
boot does call for a proper linux boot but it is not getting it. So
the grub boot needs to be fixed.
Let me add how to fix your grub problem. If your linux system is in
/dev/sda2 then here is what you should do.
Using a rescue disk just boot up to a prompt. There type grub. When
it is up you do these two things:
# grub root (hd0,1)
# grub setup (hd0,1)
# grub quit
Now get out of the rescue mode and you should be able to boot up linux
in the same old way.
--
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
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