Hi,

I installed RedHat 9 using a boot partition. The installation went well but when I boot the PC, I can't see the boot loader menu but only get the text "GRUB" on the screen, then the pc hangs. I can't event boot into the XP.

I used the PQMAGIC to check the partitions: the windows xp, linux boot/root/swap partitions are all there.

Anyone has any idea about this, please help.

Thanks very much!

Donge

Do you see the command prompt like this?

grub >

If you do, type in commands like this.

grub > rootnoverify (hdx,y)
grub > chainloader +1
grub > boot

* pls note that (hdx,y) is your windows partition.
hda1 ----> (hd0,0)
hda2 ----> (hd0,1)
.............
hdb1 ----> (hd1,0)
hdb2 ----> (hd1,1)
.............

if you can boot up windows, you should have no problems at all. Just boot into linux using the boot disk created during installation. Go to /boot/grub/ and edit the file grub.conf (or menu.lst). Post the file here if you dunno how to.

Thanks koyi

NO, I can see the command like 'grub >'. I only see

GRUB -

I think the '-' is the cursor. But whatever I type, the cursor just does want to move - I can type anything onto the screen, the pc just hangs...

Any idea about this problem?

Thanks very much

Donge

I meant I CAN't see the command prompt. Sorry about the typing error.

Also I don't have a book disk as I don't have a flopy driver with my notebook.

Donge

boot from a bootable floppy.try lilo instead of grub.

try reinstalling,with lilo as bootloader

Thanks Arunshivanandan

Is Lilo better than Grub?

I have to say that I got this problem only when I reinstall RetHat using a boot partition. The Grub worked well when I only had a root and a swap partitions. I created a boot partition and reformated all the linux partitions during the installation. Then I get this problem.

is that because of the boot partition?

Thanks for your help

Donge

Hi,

just wanted to add a bit more to the pre post:

I don't have a boot disk as I don't have flopy driver
with my pc. I can boot the pc from a KNOPPIX cd and
can see the files in all partitions. However, I don't
have the permission to open the boot/grub.conf file.

Any idea to fix this? Thanks very much.

Donge

I had Windows NT 4 running just fine on one hard drive. I installed redhat 9 on another hard drive (partitions on hdb are /boot, swap and /)

Now nothing boots. After POST, it just says "GRUB _".

Can anyone please HELP !!!

Thanks,

Gord.

Hi Donge. Did u install GRUB or LILO in MBR ? If so Windows will never boot

Not really..Grub is newer and is more flexible.lilo suits a newbie/first time installer and is easily configurable.I think grub is more complex.

may be some problem with the configeration of the bootloader after adding the boot partition.

the best method(i think) is to reinstall linux(try lilo instead).

Hi Electbody,

>Did u install GRUB or LILO in MBR ? If so Windows will never boot

NO, I installed the GRUB in the first sector of the boot partition

Thanks

Donge

Try boot from 1st redhat 9 CD. then type: linux rescue.

Then chroot na /dev/???. So, then you can config lilo, to be your bool loader.

Thanks Shamen

I guess /dev/??? is pointing to the boot partition? But how about 'na'? I did try chroot but could only use

chroot /mnt/sysimage

as the rescue says.

Also I am using GRUB. How do I configurate it? My grub.conf file is:

-----------------------------------------------
default=1
timeout=10
splashimage=)hd0,3)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
password --md5 ....
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.20-8.img
root (hd0,3)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/
hdc=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img
title WinXP
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
------------------------------------------------

Any idea? Thanks very much.

Donge

linux rescue

now, you are running chrooted to boot image.

So, do st. like this:

mkdir /mnt/test
mount /dev/??? /mnt/test
chroot /mnt/test

:-)