On Tue, 6 May 2008, »Q« wrote:
When I try to boot, the word GRUB gets written to the screen over and over and over, filling the screen. Pressing keys, AFAICT so far, doesn't stop this. The screen is just filled with "GRUB", and I think it's an ongoing thing because of a little flicker at the bottom right.
<quote href="http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/grub-error-guide.xml#doc_chap7";> 7. GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB ... Situation Code Listing 7.1: Grub Output GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB ... Solution According to airhead this can be caused by having your bios detect your disks automatically. Try to set your bios entry to User Type HDD. Another possibility is that you had Grub installed on your MBR and tried reinstalling it (for instance due to hard disk changes) but used the wrong setup and root commands. </quote> -- Ian Hilt ian.hilt (at) gmail.com GnuPG key: 0x4AFC1EE3
