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tct1501

Member

Registered: 2006-11-28

Posts: 17

grub boots into grubshell

Greetings all,

Though im not a newbie to Linux (i am to Grub), there seemed to be no other appropiate forum section for the following problem:

When I boot my computer, Grub seems to do do it's things, but ends up displaying the grubshell instead of displaying the boot menu.

"grub> cccccccccccccc"

is what I see at boot. There are `14c's there . If i press escape to go to the bootmenu, then I can enter the entry I want, and boot succesfully. I thougth it had sth to do with the bootsectors, so I created a grub boot disk. That yields the same grubshell upon booting from fd. So any suggestions to circumvent this?

Thanks in advance

btw: this is are bootentries of my menu.lst, if it helps

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux  [/boot/vmlinuz26]
root   (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 md=1,/dev/sdb1,/dev/sdc1 md=3,/dev/sdb3,/dev/sdc3 root=/dev/mapper/array3-root ro 
initrd /kernel26.img

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux Fallback
root   (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz26 md=1,/dev/sdb1,/dev/sdc1 md=3,/dev/sdb3,/dev/sdc3 root=/dev/mapper/array3-root ro 
initrd /kernel26-fallback.img

# (2) Windows
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1

gregben

Member

Registered: 2007-04-28

Posts: 6

Re: grub boots into grubshell

Try adding

# general configuration:
timeout   20
default   0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue

to the top of menu.lst

tct1501

Member

Registered: 2006-11-28

Posts: 17

Re: grub boots into grubshell

Try adding
...
to the top of menu.lst

Nope, those entries are already there.

I spoke of bootentries of my menu.lst, not the entire file. But for convenvience and clarity I'd perhaps had better posted the complete menu.lst. Thanks anyway

I still have this issue though... I tried cursing grub, but that didnt help as well as other measures didnt yield result. For now ill live with it and post if it is resolved.

tct1501

Member

Registered: 2006-11-28

Posts: 17

Re: grub boots into grubshell

For those interested and/or having this problem: Miraculously this problem got solved with a new kernel upgrade.