Hello,

First some history.

I installed Fedora9. And I asked to created several partitions (for /var, /usr, /home, etc . . .)
For a mysteric reason, Fedora created the asked partitions, but did not mounted them ! (The partitions got the label name instead of to be mounted to the asked mount-points)

So I had my system running with all systeminfo located in 1 partitions sda10. (and a lot of useless small partitions in front of it).

My system started fine with grub.
I started to remove a partition in front of sda10, and now I get "grub>" so fort after my pc start. (I do not see first GRUB, grub loading stage . .. etc !)

When I manualy point grub to load the grub.conf, it start the splashscreen, and I can boot (I have modified the partitions in the grub.conf to match with the new partitions now)


I ask myself now :
How is it possible that my pc start directly with the "grub>" prompt, and I do not noticed somthing like "Grub, loading stage . . ..)
Where is grub looking for its config-file? (where is this parametered ?)

This problem can be corrected by reinstalling grub. OK.
I will do that one day. But I want to know now why this is happing now.

Who can help me ?

Thanks,

/boot/grub/menu.lst I believe.

Where is your /boot dir located?

When it is installed, GRUB gets "hard-coded" to point to the location of /boot/grub. Anything you do to change the way partitions are seen will throw GRUB "off the trail".

If you can get into Linux by any means--including booting from live CD, then you can re-install GRUB.

The Fedora partition issue is probably because you did not designate mount points during installation. I think that the installer typically forces you to mount something at /, but leaves it optional to mount any others.

My /boot is in (hd0,6)

I need to enter at grub>

And then my system starts. (grub splashscreen)

When you get the prompt, try this to re-write the MBR with the correct info Then reboot to check it.