Re: GRUB doesn't come up in new installation
I've also noticed that the hard drive light goes on for a while after
the screen goes black when GRUB should have appeared, so I wonder if
the OS is booting but there's a problem with the video card? I don't
know why the video could work fine for everything including liveCDs
and installation discs but fail when GRUB comes up, but I'm at a loss.
It's an AOPEN Geforce2 Model MX200 plug-in card. I can't see any
onboard video on this mainboard.
2006/3/24, Levi Waldron <onemorenut@gmail.com>:
> I'm trying to install Debian on a fairly new machine, a Celeron 2GHz,
> ASUS P4S800 mainboard with SiS 648FX chipset, onboard NVidia Geforce
> video card, Award BIOS. It worked fine with the proprietary OS it had
> when I bought it.
>
> I just ran the Debian stable business card iso install disc, and
> re-partitioned and formatted the hard drive. But when I reboot
> without a CD in the drive, when GRUB should come up I get a black
> screen instead. Knoppix and Ubuntu Live CDs work fine, which is where
> I'm writing this email from. I've also tried using the Debian install
> disc as a rescue disc, ie:
>
> linux root=/dev/hda1
>
> but I get a "VFS: Cannot open root device" kernel panic. Perhaps I'm
> just not using the rescue disc properly, I've gotten this error before
> when compiling a kernel without the --initrd option.
>
> I noticed that the BIOS had boot virus protection enabled, so I
> disabled this, without avail. Perhaps the BIOS is still resetting my
> MBR even though this "virus protection" is now disabled, and I have to
> do a hard reset of the bios? I'm attaching the file produced by the
> command
>
> dd if=/dev/hda of=/boot/boot.MBR bs=512 count=1
>
> in case anyone knows how to read an MBR backup. Any ideas?
>
>
>
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