This usually means that the MBR got clobbered. Since you can boot from a floppy. Once booted go to the /boot/grub directory and type grub-install /hda That will give you your grub menu back. This happened to me when I reinstalled Windoze. Booting from floppy and running what I mentioned above fixed that for me. I wouldn't worry too much about LILO as it's going to be scrapped soon anyway. And Grub is far more powerful. (Found this out when I read the doc's.. Ouch) Wolf -----Original Message----- From: --JC [mailto:jwc0@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, 9 September 2003 2:36 PM To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Nothing but GRUB 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) - ---------------- [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 ---------------- 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 ###################################################################### Attention: This e-mail message is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please delete the message and notify the sender. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author. This e-mail has been scanned and cleared by MailMarshal www.marshalsoftware.com ###################################################################### -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
