Received message when trying to boot SimplyMepis 3.4

LQer928 · 02-14-2006, 02:24 AM

Hello.
When I tried to boot Mepis3.4 on my NEC Ebook-400, I was greeted with two screens with one message on each of them.
The first reads like this:
" boot CD-ROM Type: Non-Emulation Booting
Loading stage 2 "
Then after a split second came the second one:
" GNU GRUB version 0.95 (639k lower/228228k upper memory

[Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported.
For the first word, TAB lists possible command
completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible
completion of a device/filename.]
grub> "

I am pretty sure I correctly burned the disk on a low
speed and it is not corrupted, thus do I stand a chance
of installing th OS? Urgently seeking help!
Thanks!

mos · 02-15-2006, 07:27 PM

your bios doesnt support grub apparently.

try this

LQer928 · 02-20-2006, 01:12 AM

I think that must be it.I have tried Vector as well and the same situation occured. My laptop worked fine when I was installing Slackware and CentOS, but I never thought it just might be a conflict between GRUB and the BIOS.
Thanks again, mos!

martin336 · 03-16-2006, 07:01 AM

I'm new to Linux and have been trying different distro's on my laptop.
Most have used Grub without a problem.
However, I'm getting the same problem as LQer928 with SimplyMepis 3.4.3.

I've just noticed the dates on the previous posts (a year ago), hope that doesn't mean this thread is dead.