Intall from grub

[Dotan Cohen]

On 19/06/06, Gary W. Swearingen <garys at opusnet.com> wrote:
> "Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > As I'm having problems installing from one of my optical drives, I set
> > the other drive to be bootable and put the install media in it. But,
> > instead of sending me to the install screen, I am given a grub boot
> > prompt. What must I type at such a prompt to get the disc loading?
>
> Unlikely:  Your media isn't an install media, but a grub media.

No, the install starts (but hangs) from the other optical drive. And
the media check shows that it is fine.

> Likely: A previous install attempt installed a grub boot loader on
> a hard disk and that is booting instead of your optical drive.  So
> either you didn't configure the BIOS to boot from optical or the
> optical is broken or the optical media is broken so it can boot.
> You should be able to determine which by listening and watching
> msgs and drive lights, etc.

BIOS is most certainly set to boot from the optical drive in question.
If I tell it to boot from the DVD burner, I get to start the install
(but it hangs). If I tell it to boot from the CD burner, then I get a
grub prompt. If I tell it to boot from the hard disk, then I get the
text GRUB under the PCI device listing, but no prompt- it just hangs.
I assume that is because of the partial installation that keeps
hanging.

Dotan Cohen


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