Locked up in boot process.

[Frans Ketelaars]

On Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:57:28 +0000, Steven Vollom wrote:
> On Saturday 01 August 2009 03:21:31 pm Goh Lip wrote:
>> kdesudo kate /boot/grub/menu.lst
> I don't have  menu.lst file anymore.  I have no idea what happened to
> it.  The first thing I did was try to open Kate and find that file to
> make sure pci=nomsi was in the kernel.
> 
> I swear I have not been doing anything with configuration for a long
> time.  The only thing I did was attempt to install xine.  It failed due
> to a permissions problem.  Then this happened.  I have had no trouble
> with anything for quite a while until the xine install failure.
> 
> It took a while, but I went through every item in the files that were in
> the boot folder looking for ACPI problems with PSS.  I could not finde
> any entry that had both ACPI and PSS in the same line.
> 
> How could the grub folder disappear like that?
> 
> Steven

At least you seem to get a command prompt. Just to make sure: what is the 
output of "df -h" ? A full partition can cause strange problems ...

And try to relax ;)

    -Frans