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kalinatek

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From: Boston

Registered: 2007-01-07

Posts: 20

GRUB boots to GRUB shell. [solved]

Don't know what else to tell you really, I don't know how to fix this problem, I've reinstalled GRUB like a million times but it still boots to the shell, which I can still boot from fine if I type in the 'root (hd0,1) / kernel /vmlinuz26 ' etcetc stuff but is just annoying. How should I go about fixing this? I've double checked the menu.lst for errors a lot and I can't see any.. help

My setup is-
two hard drives, first one with XP / Vista, second with all Arch, with a boot, swap, and root partition

I installed grub to the MBR of the first drive because that's the one that my BIOS defaults to. Maybe that's the problem. idk

Last edited by kalinatek (2008-06-13 18:44:26)

tigrmesh

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From: Florida, US

Registered: 2007-12-11

Posts: 794

Re: GRUB boots to GRUB shell. [solved]

Please post your menu.lst and your /etc/fstab.

underpenguin

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Registered: 2007-02-01

Posts: 116

Re: GRUB boots to GRUB shell. [solved]

make sure your menu.lst is readable and in the right place.

timetrap

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From: Here and There

Registered: 2008-06-05

Posts: 342

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Re: GRUB boots to GRUB shell. [solved]

I had this exact same problem. Basically your menu.lst file is not in the right place.

Here is the forum topic that I started http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=49814

I also made a few corrections to the archwiki entry for grub so make sure you look there too.

You mention that you have a separate boot partition. Check in /boot and make sure that you don't have a /boot/boot directory. . . (that's what happened to me, check the above link).

Last edited by timetrap (2008-06-10 20:46:14)

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underpenguin

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Registered: 2007-02-01

Posts: 116

Re: GRUB boots to GRUB shell. [solved]

Actually, that has happened to me too, now that you mention it

bender02

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,329

Re: GRUB boots to GRUB shell. [solved]

It might be that grub doesn't name the devices the way you expect, and hence you keep installing grub onto the other drive. Google for device.map, or see http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=153679 there are some useful links there.

kalinatek

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From: Boston

Registered: 2007-01-07

Posts: 20

Re: GRUB boots to GRUB shell. [solved]

I did what you said timetrap. Worked. ty.

Before, I was installing from the grub shell.. no idea why. But I was using

root (hd1,0)

at the beginning of my experience in the GRUB shell and then running

setup (hd0)

and I think that was the problem. I deleted /boot/boot, which did exist as you expected, and then ran 'grub-install hd0' and everything works beautifully now.

Thanks again