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Old 02-09-2005, 05:17 AM   #1
Napalm Llama
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Linux won't start up... GRUB seems to have killed itself! Help?!


OK, I'm in a bit of a predicament. I'm having to post this from college, because I can't get on the internet at all at home now.

You see, my computer won't boot Linux anymore.
I think I use GRUB. I get it's green GUI screen (I have SuSE Personal 9.1) and I can choose 'Linux' or 'Failsafe', but when I hit enter (or the bar times out) it displays:

Loading Linux..........................................................
_

(or 'Loading Failsafe', if that's what I chose)

And then just stops.
It can boot into WinME, but I can't seem to configure that to work with my (really rather simple) internet setup.

Does anybody know what to do?
Windoze doesn't acknowledge my Linux partition's existence, and I can't even get a Linux command line.

I shut it down properly last night, and I didn't change any boot settings that I know of.

If I can get the net working at home, I'll download a rescue disk (or use the SuSE Install CD if that has a rescue function) and try and fix it from there, but not having much experience in this field I wouldn't have a clue what to do.

Any ideas?

Last edited by Napalm Llama; 02-09-2005 at 05:30 AM.
 
Old 02-09-2005, 05:31 PM   #2
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Although I hate to bump...

I hate even more being stuck in my PC's old Windoze partition until I can get Linux working again.

I figured out how to connect it to the net...
It had to restart.
Twice.
This angered me.

For the sake of my sanity, please tell me how to fix it!
 
  


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