Boot up with a black screen and the word 'GRUB' followed by blinking cusor
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Boot up with a black screen and the word 'GRUB' followed by blinking cusor
Desired situation
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To dual boot Win2K and Debian, using Win2K's boot.ini as the first OS loader, i.e. Upon bootup, boot.ini will display a menu that allows you to choose to boot either Win2K or Debian. Choosing Debian will load the Grub GUI menu, that displays the various versions of Kernel, from which you can boot from (assuming you have more than one version of kernel installed).
My partition layout
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/dev/hdb1 /
/dev/hdb5 swap
/dev/hdb6 /home
What has been done
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- Install GRUB using apt-get install grub
- Run grub
- At grub prompt: find /boot/grub/stage1, of which returns (hd1,0)
- do a 'root (hd1,0)'
- do a 'setup (hd1,0)'
- mount floppy to /mnt
- dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=/mnt/sarge.lnx bs=512 count=1
- umount /mnt
- reboot and copy sarge.lnx into window's C:/
- edit Win2K's boot.ini to include c:\sarge.lnx="Debian"
- reboot
Problem: After choosing Debian from the boot menu displayed by
Win2K's boot.ini, I get a black screen with the word GRUB and a blinking cursor at the top left hand corner of the screen.
Been having a heck of a time trying to get Sarge installed via Beta4 netinst.
Install seems to go fine, but can never boot into it.
Like the original poster I have Win2K on /hda and Debian on /hdb.
Tried LILO on /dev/hdb1 and copied the boot sect. to a file. Selecting that option from NTLDR, flashes back to the Win2K menu option.
Tried LILO on /dev/hda1 (works like a charm with Slackware), gives me L 99 99 9 99 99 99 99 99 99 .....
Tried GRUB on floppy, boots to GRUB, in other words it just shows the word GRUB and a flashing cursor (then nothing).
Tried GRUB on /hda, boots to GRUB (then nothing), fdisk /MBR doesn't restore win booting ability. Have to undo the frigging that GRUB apparently does to my win2k boot.ini.
It's good to see that I'm not only one with this problem.
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