GRUB boot loader / Debian Lenny / GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB

[Tyler Aviss]

Did you install GRUB to /dev/hda1 (bootable partition) or /dev/hda (MBR)?

It's been awhile since I've had this message myself, but I believe
that I once encountered it when I had GRUB on both the boot-partition
and the MBR.

Can you manage to get into the GRUB console by pushing "E" or "ESC"?


On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Alex Beamish <talexb-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Last week I set up an NFS server on an old P400 box, using a pair of
> 320G drives and an old 8G drive as the system drive. Lenny installed,
> and I successfully ran mdadm on the big drives and then mkfs to build
> a file system on them. I mounted the mirrored drives, made an /export
> directory, set up /etc/exports to export a directory and mounted that
> directory from my workstation -- everything worked fine (if a little
> slowly). Life was good.
>
> On Friday, there was a power cut, and now when the system boots I
> don't get the GRUB menu, I get screenfuls of GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB going
> on forever (I had the same problem when trying to install
> DmanSmallLinux -- I gave up on that and moved to Lenny, which worked
> better). This GRUB GRUB GRUB is tiring and not really that
> informative.
>
> I've talked with folks on #grub and received the advice to 'just
> install GRUB2' using a chroot jail. I could do that, I suppose, but
> I'd prefer to understand a) what's going on (that is, what error
> condition is GRUB GRUB GRUB reporting?); and b) why GRUB2 will make
> this problem go away. The current version of GRUB is 0.97.
>
> Drives are: primary IDE: 320G / CD; secondary IDE: 8G / 320G, so the
> 8G system drive is known by the BIOS as D:, and by GRUB as /dev/hdc.
> The device.map is (hd0)  /dev/hda / (hd1) /dev/hdc / (hd2)  /dev/hdd;
> and menu.lst contains a regular and a single user entry with root /
> (hd1,0). I tried changing the root entry to (hd1,1) since I thought
> Linux was on the second partition, but it's not.
>
> I just wish there was some way I could find out what error GRUB is
> encountering so that I could address it. Thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Alex Beamish
> Toronto, Ontario
> aka talexb
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