Cannot start laptop - Grub prompt

[Dotan Cohen]

On 25/01/07, Tony Nelson <tonynelson at georgeanelson.com> wrote:
> At 10:48 AM +0800 1/25/07, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
> >On Sun, 2007-01-21 at 03:27 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> >> Thanks. I had to reinstall the OS. And just hitting that damn button
> >> nukes anything that's not Windows on the hardrive.
> >
> >Hi Dotan,
> >
> >My recent experience with Dell laptops (those with XP) is that they have
> >2 partitions, one of which is a recovery partition that is normally
> >hidden. ...
>  ...
>
> His has a different setup:
>
> >On 20/01/07, Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>  ...
> >Not that before I booted I played with the laptop's MediaDirect
> >feature, and I suspect that it ruined grub. Or more. What can I
> >do/check? Thanks.
>
> Google on MediaDirect.  The BIOS changes the partition table when
> MediaDirect is started by pressing the hotkey.  Something is supposed to
> change it back when MediaDirect is done.  I don't know any more than that.

Thanks, I will google that. I had only googled Dell Laptop Media
Button and variations thereof. I did not know that it is called
MediaDirect.

Dotan Cohen

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