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khoma

Member

Registered: 2011-02-08

Posts: 11

grub fails with GRUB trailed by blinking cursor [SOLVED]

Hi

I've installed arch before a couple of times, but never had this issue. All seems to be working well, but on reboot I'm met with GRUB_ and nothing else. I've searched through forums and found some suggested solutions, but none seem to be working for me.

My menu.lst looks like this:

# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd1,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sdb2 ro
initrd /boot/initramfs-linux.img

# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux Fallback
root (hd1,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sdb2 ro
initrd /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img

# (2) Windows
title Windows 7
rootnoverify (hd2,1)
chainloader +1

Four harddrives in the system;

sda - 200gb used as /home
sdb - 120gb used as swap and / (6GB swap followed by rest of the drive as /)
sdc - 120gb ssd used for Windows 7
sdd - 500gb ntfs drive

During install, I setup grub on sdc, which is also the drive that bios attempts to boot from first. I tried booting to live cd, running grub and setup (hd2) from prompt, but made no difference.

Any ideas?

Last edited by khoma (2011-11-25 09:20:06)

khoma

Member

Registered: 2011-02-08

Posts: 11

Re: grub fails with GRUB trailed by blinking cursor [SOLVED]

Well, I didn't manage to solve the problem so I ended up taking the easy way out and simply installing on another disk, and changing the bios boot order. So it's not really a solution so much as it is avoidance p) But it works.

gregor

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From: /planet/tmpfs

Registered: 2011-06-20

Posts: 175

Re: grub fails with GRUB trailed by blinking cursor [SOLVED]

# Config file for GRUB - The GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
# /boot/grub/menu.lst

# DEVICE NAME CONVERSIONS
#
#  Linux           Grub
# -------------------------
#  /dev/fd0        (fd0)
#  /dev/sda        (hd0)
#  /dev/sdb2       (hd1,1)   
#  /dev/sda3       (hd0,2)

My menu.lst looks like this:
# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd1,1)   <==== IS YOU'RE /boot at /dev/sdb2 that's what you are implying 
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sdb2 ro
initrd /boot/initramfs-linux.img

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