Re: GRUB -- hangs on boot
Did you check the file device.map in your grub directory? If there is
nothing, you should create one.
Qian
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:53:54PM -0600, will trillich wrote:
> any reason why grub would hang on startup? i see "GRUB" after
> the bios stuff, and then... nothing.
>
> a friend suggested trying windo~1 fdisk to make it a fat32
> drive, wiping previous linux stuff off, then retrynig with a new
> linux (ext3) partition scheme. i tried that (i think) and still,
> hang on boot after seeing "GRUB".
>
> is there a trick i missed in writing the boot sectors? (lilo
> worked on the machine in the past...)
>
> --
> I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0;
> Linux server 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown
>
> DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #96 from Joost Kooij <joost@topaz.mdcc.cx>
> :
> Did you know that you can SWITCH BETWEEN VIRTUAL CONSOLES using
> leftalt+cursor{left,right}? To change from vc4 to vc5, press
> alt-cursorright. Going back to X from vc1 is as simple as
> alt-cursorleft. (It doesn't work when you're already within
> X11, though -- but control-alt-F1 does.)
>
> Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ...
>
>
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