Daniel.Engelhard@hornbach.com wrote:
Hi people, at first, my English is very bad, so please don't wonder about this mail. I tried to install Debian 3.0 from the CD's I loaded. But after booting I'm not in the Standard boot-prompt. There's just a black screen with a short text at the top: blablabla....TAB lists the possible Commands....blablablabla. below is written: grub> If I press TAB, ther comes a little list of commands. But I don't know what I have to do now. I'm very new in the Linux-world. I tried SuSE but I hate it. It's very gay :) So I wanted to try Debian, and I hope it's not so gay like SuSE. please help me to install the System. greets, Daniel Engelhardt
grub is a boot loader, but it's not standard on Debian 3.0 as far as I know. Rather, lilo is the standard boot loader. It's odd that your attempt at installing Debian would install grub, and I have no explanation for it.
Nor am I particularly familiar with grub. But if Debian is properly installed, even if the boot loader (grub) is not configured ot fire it up, grub is flexible enough to boot Debian, at which time you can reconfigure grub's configuration files to make the boot process automatic.
Hopefully someone else can give you more specific instructions for booting Debian from a non-configured grub; else you can read up on grub on the web and figure out how to boot Debian.
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