On Thu, September 28, 2006 1:32 am, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
Subject: [SLE] Windows Ate A GRUB
http://jengelh.hopto.org/GFX/fpix/grub.jpg SCNR.
message, "GRUB loading stage 1.5" then the machine goes into an endless cycle of rebooting.
Try to reinstall GRUB. Can't you use the grub-install script?
Thank you. No - I've tried reinstalling GRUB. It gives me a message that it cannot find the hard drive. On the advice of another post, I went ahead and booted using the DVD and then deleted /boot/grub/stage1 I then tried to reinstall and got: GNU GRUB version 0.97 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename. ] grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0,5) (hd0,5) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... no Error 15: File not found grub> setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0) (hd0,5) Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... no Error 15: File not found grub> quit Okay, so I rebooted with the DVD and tried the repair option. I then got the message, The partition /dev/sda5 has the file system ID 130 and contains a valid swap area. Activating this swap partition insreases the performance of the repair tool. Activate? Grrr... I'm wondering if I can just wipe XP off the face of this laptop. My other laptop has been Windows-free for over a year now. -- kai www.perfectreign.com