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[Boyd Lynn Gerber <gerberb@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Basil Chupin wrote:
> [pruned]
> No. I don't get to the grub menu. If I did I wouldn't be too worried (well :-)
> ) because I would be able to at least boot into Windows but I cannot because
> the grub menu does not come up.

I do not know if this will assist you or not, but I thought I should share
two experiences I had a similar problem once when grub got corupted.  I
had to boot using the install CD.  I choose repair existing system.
After logging in as root I mounted the root filesystem to /mnt I am going
to use what I had as an example

# mount /dev/hda5 /mnt
# cd /mnt
# chroot /mnt
# mount /dev/hda4 /boot
# mkinitrd
# yast2

I then choose grub install and installed grub to /dev/hda4 and copied the
old boot to the new boot change menu.lst.  I also boot into XP with the
systems.

I was then able to reboot the system.  On an other system where the BIOS
does not support > 1024 I had to use the partitioner to delete swap create
a boot partition of about 50 MB and use the rest for swap.  I have a
200-300 MB Dos partition as /dev/hda1, NTFS as /dev/hda2, a linux swap on
/dev/hda3 that became boot, change to extended partition to include the
extra space that was in swap and made /dev/hda4 a linux swap.  Just
becareful and have a backup of your critical stuff.


> All that happens is I get the Error #18 message as soon as grub kicks in on
> boot and all I see is the grub> prompt followed by the error #18 statement.

After the above I was able to use the auto repair of the system.

Good Luck,

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