Grub just displaying "GRUB"

Andre Schlink lists at mymx.org
Tue Oct 25 07:27:54 UTC 2005


Hi,

> If you just see GRUB it means it cannot complete the first stage booting, 
> probably because of some missing files in /boot

that was the hint that had put me on the right track. Grub was not able
to find its files due to a wrong device.map.

In my BIOS configuration the SATA-drive is selected as first boot device
but Grub uses to start counting devices with IDE drives. So i modified
my device.map from:

>>device.map:
>>
>>(fd0)	/dev/fd0
>>(hd0)	/dev/hda
>>(hd1)	/dev/sda

to:

device.map:

(fd0)	/dev/fd0
(hd0)	/dev/sda
(hd1)	/dev/hda

And after reinstalling grub everything works fine again.

Thanks for your help,

Andre




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