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My GRUB isn't loading

 
 
shibo77
 
Reply Sun 19 Sep, 2004 05:07 pm
Hello all! I have a GRUB screen that immediately loads up after I start the computer, it allows me to choose my operating system (either Redhat Linux, or Windows 2000), but ever since I installed Windows 2000 updates the computer seems to freeze after the memory testing. The Linux GRUB screen never shows up. It seems to be a software problem...

Any help would be appreciated!
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Cyanure
 
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Reply Mon 20 Sep, 2004 02:35 am
Did you check your boot.ini file for correct entries?

And please check this:
When I select Linux from the boot menu, I get a frozen "GRUB" (or an "L" in the case of LILO)
Make sure you created the linux.bin file correctly with the dd command. If you think you ran the command correctly, the problem may be that your /boot partition is beyond cylinder 1024 and your BIOS can't reach it. At system startup, the Windows boot loader lists the choices from boot.ini. When you select Linux, the boot loader then loads the 512-byte linux.bin file, and then BIOS tries to access the /boot partition to run GRUB. Some BIOS implementations can only address the first 1024 cylinders of a hard drive, which corresponds to ~8.5 GB. How do you fix this? Create your /boot partition before cylinder 1024; i.e. before ~8.5 GB.
http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html
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