Hello,
I'm running into an odd problem that either I'm simply not experienced enough to fix on my own or cannot be fixed at all. Perhaps one of you fine people could give me some ideas as to what to do next.
It all started after I loaded VMware after installing knoppix (effectively installing a Debian woody box). Everything seemed to work fine but one day it all just froze up on me and on a reboot I got an error like "L 99 99 99 99 ..." halfway across the screen. I was able to fix this by doing a fdisk /mbr w/ a dos disk. Well it froze up again and fdisk /mbr didn't bring the system up again.
I'm trying to use a boot partition I created at hda1:
hda1 = boot (ext2)
hda2 = swap
hda3 = root (ext2)
I've already done a western digital drive scan to see if there are any issues with the drive, the boot utility reported no issues whatsoever.
After trying unsuccessfully to reinstall lilo I finally just installed grub. Now grub does come up at boot. I have grub installed at the MBR and the box boots into the grub prompt just fine. But when I do this:
Quote:
grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz
grub> boot
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it detects my hard drive and CD-ROMs but then it seems to continue to try to detect and load up other hd devices in order. It will improperly detect hda4, 5, then 6 and freeze up saying that it couldn't boot the kernel.
I can access/edit all the information on the drive with a knoppix CD though.
any thoughts?