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