On 3 Apr 2003, Jared Smith wrote: > 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... Yikes. I hope that's not my problem. That's the newest one in my box. It's also split in half with first partition going to Windows and the other to Linux. My /boot partition is on a separate hard drive altogether, though. > 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 > > > > -- > Shrike-list mailing list > Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list > bts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
