F7-x86-64 Stopped Booting - GRUB Issue
Karl Larsen
k5di at zianet.com
Tue Oct 9 23:03:56 UTC 2007
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.
--
Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
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