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Re: GRUB Reboot Loop

Miguel Enrique Cobá Martínez schreef:

Pieter Agten wrote:

Hello,

A couple of weeks ago I installed Debian Stable (3.1) on a PII 400Mhz
with a 80GB harddisk, everything worked fine. I had to replace this
harddisk with a different one (also 80GB) and I did this by cloning the
original disk to this new one with HDClone 3.1. After replacing the
harddisk, the system doesn't boot anymore: when I should see the GRUB
Boot Menu,  the system just reboots. So now it is stuck in a reboot loop.

The exact boot process is as follows:
- System POST
- I see 'GRUB Loading stage1.5.' and 'GRUB loading, please wait...' for
about half a second.
- Reboot

I am sure the HDClone 3.1 program works flawlessly because I have used
it before (on linux systems) and it has never failed. Furthermore, I
have had this problem before on an entirely different system, right
after the Debian installation (so on that system I never had even one
correct boot with GRUB).

How can I solve this problem? One fix might be to install LILO instead
of GRUB, but what is the best way to do this? I replaced GRUB by LILO
once before, and after that, everytime I would install a different (home
made) kernel, I had to adjust the lilo.conf and run lilo manually, so I
would like to avoid that. If it is possible, I would like to keep GRUB...


If you didn't set a password for grub, you can select the option in the
grub menu and press e for edit.
This permits you to edit the command line executed by grub.
Add a "noreboot" at the end of the line that starts with kernel and this
way you can see the messages for linux at boot up.

Miguel Cobá

Thanks in advance!
I don't even see the GRUB menu, I can't select any options... I have now made a bootable GRUB cd, as instructed to by Russel L. Harris (thx!) and I am going to try to get the system to boot using that CD. 

Thanks for the reply!
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