stage1

voip_tech_2004 · 04-05-2006, 08:31 PM

can someone please tell me how I can corrupt a stage1 so that it will continue to reboot after the bios screen?

If I manually overwrite stage1, I see that pc stop booting after bios screen but I want to know way to make it reboot after reboot after the bios screen....... Please let me know

Gethyn · 04-06-2006, 06:35 AM

First, I don't understand the question. Second, why would you want to do this?

voip_tech_2004 · 04-06-2006, 09:25 AM

I was taking rhce exam last month and failed by this question.. and wanted to study at home... Scenario was exactly like that where computer would boot up, show the bios screen and then reboot again.(again and again)...

Came home wanted to recreate the scene.. thinking that if I overwrite stage1 of grub.. it would reproduce it but only thing I could reproduce was after bios screen, it would just go blank screen(could it be it's because of the type of pc exam was using?)

Gethyn · 04-07-2006, 10:06 AM

I've never seen a computer behave like that, my only experience has been like yours, where it boots once then goes blank. Suppose something similar might occur if you set the initdefault to 6 though?

voip_tech_2004 · 04-10-2006, 05:53 PM

I am talking about experince right after the bios screen.. inittab won't be read until further much later...