On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 09:29:56PM +0100, Rainer Koenig wrote: > will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > any reason why grub would hang on startup? i see "GRUB" after > > the bios stuff, and then... nothing. > > Can you type at this point? Maybe what you are seeing is the GRUB shell > prompt. Try things like "help" to get a help.
no reaction. tab, letters, even ctl-alt-del! ...no sign of life. > > is there a trick i missed in writing the boot sectors? (lilo > > worked on the machine in the past...) > > The trick is to have a working /boot/grub/menu.lst > (or /boot/boot/grub/menu.lst in case that /boot is an extra partition). > Usually you have to do the following steps: > 1. RTFM :-) > 2. install grub using grub-install as it is described in the manual > 3. run update-grub to create a basic menu.lst > 4. Edit that menu.lst to let update-grub know about your partitions > 5. run update-grub again > 6. Reboot the system and you should get a boot menu and also the > ability to use the grub shell i'll see what i can do... thanks for the information! -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #68 from Will Trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : So you've installed Debian/GNU Linux -- NOW WHAT? For some pointers, FAQ and unix/linux lists, visit Unix Guru's Universe site at http://www.ugu.com/sui/ugu/show?I=help.beginners There's a lot of handy links there to keep you off the streets for quite some time. (I found this page from a link on http://arizona.speedchoice.com/~lufthans/unix/ -- thanks, der.hans!) Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]