Nothing but GRUB

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What does it mean when you boot your machine and all you see is "GRUB"??? And I mean, NOTHING but "GRUB". At powerup, the machine presents the XP boot option (from C:/boot.ini, below) -

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[boot loader]
timeout=10
default=C:\linux.bin
[operating systems]
C:\linux.bin="Red Hat Linux 9"
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition" /fastdetect /bootlog
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All of this has worked before.

I choose Linux, and all I see is the bloody GRUB message. It's not even a prompt, just a fragment of a failed program.

What the heck do I do now? A diskette boot finds the Linux on hda3 fine and I can boot that way. But why won't the normal boot through GRUB work? I have had this working fine in the past and now suddenly it's failing. I even reinstalled Shrike and it still fails.

What gives? How do I fix this in grub? Or should I just trash it and use Lilo?

btw, the Grub boot loader went to the first partition, not the MBR.

Frustrated and ready to dump Linux,
~>jc ** jeffrey w comer




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