Attempting to install minimal system on a P-II-MMX-550 which proceeds without error but after first reboot it comes up with a minimal Grub command line screen. What would cause this? (How do I go about determining the problem?) Thank you, Lucky Leavell
Attempting to install minimal system on a P-II-MMX-550 which proceeds without error but after first reboot it comes up with a minimal Grub command line screen. What would cause this? (How do I go about determining the problem?)
Thank you, Lucky Leavell Something similar happened to me, a long time ago (NO grub, though). I think
On Saturday 18 September 2004 22:29, Lucky Leavell wrote: the first thing I'd do is use the Installation CD to boot the system then try rewriting Grub. Perhaps you should allow the system to rewrite the MBR ...as opposed to leaving it untouched. That did it for me. HTH... -- ..."Yogi" CH Namasté Yoga Studio "If music be the food of love, why can't rabbits sing?"
On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, C Hamel wrote:
Attempting to install minimal system on a P-II-MMX-550 which proceeds without error but after first reboot it comes up with a minimal Grub command line screen. What would cause this? (How do I go about determining the problem?)
Thank you, Lucky Leavell Something similar happened to me, a long time ago (NO grub, though). I think
On Saturday 18 September 2004 22:29, Lucky Leavell wrote: the first thing I'd do is use the Installation CD to boot the system then try rewriting Grub. Perhaps you should allow the system to rewrite the MBR ...as opposed to leaving it untouched. That did it for me.
I tried rewriting the MBR and verifying the system using the rescue option with same results. I finally reinstalled using LILO and it worked fine. (I seem to remember reading something on this list about GRUB sometimes failing to work with some hardware configurations. After YoU, I executed /sbin/lilo as instructed and recieved a warning about drive geometry mismatch (cylinders-heads-sectors)). Thank you, Lucky Leavell
On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 20:44, C Hamel wrote:
Attempting to install minimal system on a P-II-MMX-550 which proceeds without error but after first reboot it comes up with a minimal Grub command line screen. What would cause this? (How do I go about determining the problem?)
Thank you, Lucky Leavell Something similar happened to me, a long time ago (NO grub, though). I think
On Saturday 18 September 2004 22:29, Lucky Leavell wrote: the first thing I'd do is use the Installation CD to boot the system then try rewriting Grub. Perhaps you should allow the system to rewrite the MBR ...as opposed to leaving it untouched. That did it for me.
I would try repair installation. boot the first CD and select new installation / repair installation and tell it to repair grub in the mbr. BTW this is a PII 350 with 256mb and 8mb video. runs fine just use the update disk I made off the PIII all is OK. CWSIV
On Sat, 2004-09-18 at 20:44, C Hamel wrote:
Attempting to install minimal system on a P-II-MMX-550 which proceeds without error but after first reboot it comes up with a minimal Grub command line screen. What would cause this? (How do I go about determining the problem?)
Thank you, Lucky Leavell Something similar happened to me, a long time ago (NO grub, though). I think
On Saturday 18 September 2004 22:29, Lucky Leavell wrote: the first thing I'd do is use the Installation CD to boot the system then try rewriting Grub. Perhaps you should allow the system to rewrite the MBR ...as opposed to leaving it untouched. That did it for me.
I would try repair installation. boot the first CD and select new installation / repair installation and tell it to repair grub in the mbr. BTW this is a PII 350 with 256mb and 8mb video. runs fine just use the update disk I made off the PIII all is OK. CWSIV
On Saturday 18 September 2004 10:29 pm, Lucky Leavell wrote:
Attempting to install minimal system on a P-II-MMX-550 which proceeds without error but after first reboot it comes up with a minimal Grub command line screen. What would cause this? (How do I go about determining the problem?)
By minimal did you mean that you see the word 'GRUB' at the top left of the screen and nothing else? This is what happened to me when my install rebooted before really finishing due to some filesystem issues. To fix I had to have the installer reformat the partition in question. -- Stephen If your desktop gets out of control easily, you probably have too much stuff on it that doesn't need to be there. Donna Smallin, "Unclutter Your Home"
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