[SOLVED]GRUB menu does not show up

rohtie · 2011-03-21 13:10:33

When I boot from HDD I get the grub command line.
The menu does not show up. Any ideas?
I think it might be a configuration problem.

Last edited by rohtie (2011-03-21 18:19:42)

lives2evil · 2011-03-21 13:24:30

If it's a configuration, fix it. As for how, try reading the wiki at please.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB

Last edited by lives2evil (2011-03-21 13:25:12)

rohtie · 2011-03-21 14:33:36

I managed to boot from the grub console.
However now I encountered a problem: /sbin/init does not exist
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off

lives2evil · 2011-03-21 15:00:00

Can you please be more specific. How did you boot up? are you sure you got it right? And when the error message appear. When you login or you can not login at all?

Last edited by lives2evil (2011-03-21 15:23:08)

rohtie · 2011-03-21 16:40:20

sorry.

My partition scheme is as following:

primary  sda1: windows xp
extended sda2: Arch Linux
 logical sda5: /boot
 logical sda6: /
 logical sda7: swap
 logical sda8: /home

In the grub console i typed this to boot:

root (hd0,4)
kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda5 ro
initrd /kernel26.img

Then I encountered the following errors and could not log in:

/sbin/init does not exist
/bin/sh: can't access tty; job control turned off

lives2evil · 2011-03-21 16:44:07

Try changing /dev/sda5 to /dev/sda6
When you can boot into your system, remember to create a menu.lst properly.

Last edited by lives2evil (2011-03-21 16:50:50)

rohtie · 2011-03-21 18:08:30

I formatted all my logical partitions and reinstalled arch plus did a more detailed configuration. Now it works excellent!
Thanks for your help

lives2evil · 2011-03-21 18:12:34

So mark this as [Solve] to make the forum cleaner

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[SOLVED]GRUB menu does not show up

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