On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 17:32 +0200, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:43:04 -0400, William Case wrote: > > > Hi; > > > > I have started this thread again as a new thread. The previous "Double > > checking grub-install ??" lead off in all kinds of plausible directions. > > I think I now have more of a focus. > > > > To recap: > > > > I am getting a double Fedora grub splashimage at boot. > > What exactly does that mean? About a week ago (I don't re-boot very often), I noticed the Fedora grub splash screen appear for 1/2 second or less, then go blank and pause for a second or two. Then a new splash screen appeared and everything progressed fine from there. This occurs definitely during the grub stage of bootup. > Can you hit keys to enter the first GRUB menu and stop it > from booting any entry automatically? No. The image is incomplete in the first instance and disappers too quickly. > > > I have a dual > > boot system with WindowsXP on sda and Fedora 9 on sdb. > > And what does your boot sequence look like? NTLDR on sda? > Do you chainload from sda into sdb? > And what does your sdb GRUB config look like? Is it really > GRUB in the MBR of sdb instead of the boot sector of your > boot/root partition? > > > I have some > > experience with installing grub but made a typo type mistake during a > > grub install a month ago and I think (??) that might have been the root > > of my double splashimage problem. > > > > To check the mbr, I ran on /dev/sda: > > ~]# dd bs=512 count=1 if=/dev/sda | od -Ax -tx1z -v > > > > it returned: > > ... > > 000160 7c be 85 7d e8 40 00 eb 0e be 8a 7d e8 38 00 eb > > >|..}.@.....}.8..< > > What does it print for the line at offset 0? > [root@CASE ~]# dd bs=512 count=1 if=/dev/sda | od -Ax -tx1z -v 1+0 records in 1+0 records out 512 bytes (512 B) copied, 6.288e-05 s, 8.1 MB/s 000000 eb 48 90 8e d0 bc 00 7c fb 8e d8 be 00 7c 8e c0 >.H.....|.....|..< 000010 bf 00 06 b9 00 01 f3 a5 e9 00 8a be ae 07 b9 04 >................< 000020 00 83 c6 10 80 3c 80 74 09 80 3c 00 75 5d e2 f1 >.....<.t..<.u]..< -- Regards Bill; Fedora 9, Gnome 2.22.2 Evo.2.22.2, Emacs 22.2.1 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
