Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2112 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 03 August 2008 15:34:56 Neil wrote:
> Hello
>
> First some background: I was trying to get Suse on my EeePC a while
> back, but crashed as the CD I used didn't have Make, so I couldn't
> install the Madwifidrivers and so I couldn't get the network active
> and thus couldn't install make....(see this thread:
> http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/SuSE/2008-07/msg00537.html)
> The following site was suggested:
> http://en.opensuse.org/OpenSUSE_on_the_EeePC . I tried the first
> version since it promises to boot without an USB stick and that is
> exactly what I want.
> I tried it and had the following problem: When booting from USB the
> Eee posts "GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB" and so forth on the screen (just
> like 10 echo "GRUB" 20 goto 10" would do).
>
> Does annywone have an idea what this could possibly mean?

Well, if it prints "GRUB" and then stops, it usually means that grub couldn't 
find stage one - normally because it's been configured with the wrong hard 
drive index, but it could also be that stage1 has been physically moved. While 
grub can read file systems, stage1 must always be physically in the same place 
it was when grub was installed. Maybe your USB stick has a different geometry 
than the reference stick used to create the image?

Repeating "GRUB" probably means that the BIOS tries continuously to reload the 
boot loader

You could try inserting your stick into another system and reinstalling grub 
on it

Anders
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