What happened was that Windows would not shut down after several hours. I used the power button. When I turned the machine back on it wouldn't boot. Grub had been behaving a bit strangely lately. Could a Windows update have messed it up. Where do i get a rescue disk? John On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 02:05:07AM -0700, Tony Baechler wrote: > You didn't give background information leading up to the behavior you > describe, so this is only a random guess. It sounds like the GRUB image is > out of sync with the image installed in the MBR. I would boot a rescue CD, > chroot into the Linux system, make sure all updates are installed paying > especial attention to GRUB and run grub-install on your boot drive. If that > doesn't work, I'm afraid I don't know. > > On 9/12/2015 10:49 PM, John J. Boyer wrote: > >I have a machine which is dual-boot with Vinux and Windows 7. When I try > >to boot the boot screen appears, but grub will not respond to any > >keystrokes or mouse movements. The USB devices are not activated, as > >they should be. There is no starting beep. It just sits there. How can I > >deal with this situation? > > > > _______________________________________________ > Blinux-list mailing list > Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list -- John J. Boyer; President, AbilitiesSoft, Inc. http://www.abilitiessoft.org Madison, Wisconsin USA We develop software for people with disabilities which is abailable at no cost. _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list