Re: GRUB -- hangs on boot
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 04:28:39PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
> 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.
>
> I bet you don't have the MBR configured correctly. Here is a scenario
> which will show what you're seeing :
> 1) load grub on a floppy
> 2) boot from floppy
> 3) from the shell run the "setup" command (IIRC, I haven't done
> this in a while)
> 4) remove the floppy
> 5) reboot
>
> What happens is the stage1, on the MBR, is set to look for the stage2
> on the floppy disk. It doesn't find it, so it gets stuck. If you put
> the floppy in at that point it would work.
without booting from the floppy? hmm. i may try that (the
situation is quite similar)...
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