Re: strange boot behavior

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I had this same problem... it turned that my Windows 2000 hard drive was
going bad.  Once I replaced the hard drive, it worked great! YMMV...

Jared Smith

On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 15:54, Brian Schmidt wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This is a behavior I noticed began with the final beta that was out.  I'm
> on a dual-boot machine with Windows 2000 (FAT32).  About 90% of the time,
> if I hit <Enter> when the Grub screen comes up to immediately begin
> booting Windows 2000, it doesn't work.  The Grub screen goes away and the
> screen goes black.  No disk activity, nothing.  I end up having to hit the
> reset button.  However, if I set Windows 2000 to be the default boot OS,
> then let the timer expire for it to boot automatically, it will boot up
> just fine.  Has anyone else noticed this behavior?  I've had this same
> setup for quite a long time, but it's only been the last beta and then RHL
> 9 where I've experienced this.
> 
> TIA,
> Brian
> 
> bts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org





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