--- On Sat, 12/27/08, Beartooth <Beartooth@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Beartooth <Beartooth@xxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Catch-22 : NO JOY after all
> To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Saturday, December 27, 2008, 12:40 PM
> On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:45:38 +0000, I Beartooth wrote:
> [....]
> > Today I decided to tackle my main machine. Anaconda
> launches --
> > but before it starts asking about language, keyboard,
> etc, I get the
> > dread "signal out of range; set to
> 1680x1050". [....]
>
> I'm on machine #2. For some reason, not all of this
> thread got to
> my reader this time; but when I left off, F10 was
> installed, XP on the
> other hard drive was still there, access to both was
> available, and both
> seemed to be working.
>
> I had left out any mention of my KVM switch, since I had
> shut all
> machines down (posting then from a wireless laptop), pulled
> the cables
> from the peripherals to the switch and from the switch to
> #1, and
> connected #1 directly to the peripherals.
>
> Now I have put the KVM switch back into use. The other
> machines
> (all of which, including this one, had been shut down, but
> never
> disconnected from the switch) are still as before. But #1
> is suddenly
> altogether unusable.
>
> When I power it up, I seen *nothing* -- no maker's
> splash screen,
> no access to the BIOS, no self-testing, no grub menu --
> until I get a
> blinking underline character in the upper left corner for a
> few seconds,
> then (one or two lines down) "GRUB _" -- and
> there it sits. No grub stage
> 2, no grub menu, no anything else ever any more, unless I
> hit Ctrl-Alt-
> Delete or the reset button -- whereupon the same nastiness
> repeats.
>
> When I log into my router (a Netgear MBR 814, supplied by
> my
> wireless broadband provider),and go down the list of
> "Attached Devices),
> connecting to each with ssh, I succeed with them all -- and
> #1 is *not*
> one.
>
> That actually makes sense, after a minute; as that blasted
> "GRUB
> _" implies, no OS on either hard drive has ever
> actually reached boot
> point. So of course nothing is running, nor is there to
> connect to. Hence
> nothing on #1 is attached to the router.
>
> Incidentally, I have tried punching the escape key at
> every point
> along the dead end to "GRUB _", despite my
> disgust with that trick; no
> help there, either.
>
> I can of course, once again, shut all machines down, move
> the
> cables from the peripherals back off the KVM switch onto
> #1, and
> (presumably) regain use of that machine, at the cost of the
> other three.
> But so what? If I do it, and it does get me back into #1,
> what then??
> What do I change, or how do I find what to change?
>
> One faint possibility, one I have less than no confidence
> in, is
> that the monitor in grub.conf is set to 1280x1024 rather
> than 1680x1050
> -- it is in #2, but #2 works.
>
> --
> Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
> Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
>
> --
Welcome to the GRUB_ Club :)
That is when you install a new kernel, machine reboots and you are greeted with a GRUB__ prompt only that does nothing :(
What you need to do(to make your computer function) is to boot in rescue mode and reinstall grub. That way you get rid of your GRUB_ problem.
This GRUB_ problem has bitten many of us that it is not funny anymore. But it happens(we can't complain, it happens to anyone of us, no one is exempt), the good thing is that there's a workaround. Try that and report back.
Regards,
Antonio
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