grub does nothing

[J.Markoll]

Thomas Beckett a écrit :
> I installed the dapper daily from 7th Jan (i also tried with flight 2
> and have the same problem).
> The install seems to go fine - the packages are installed onto my
> partitioned drive etc, when it reboots for the first time to continue
> installing the packages grub shows up fine. When I select Ubuntu it
> prints the following:
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> Booting command-list
> 
> root(hd1,0)
> Filesystemtype is ext2fs, partition type 0x83
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-8-386 root=/dev/hdb1 ro quiet splash
>     [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x100, size=0x1534ad]
> initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-8-386
>     [Linux-initrd at 0x1fa95000,0x55a218 bytes]
> savedefault
> boot
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> This is the point at which it would normally go off and unpack the
> initrd and boot my system but noting happens at all it just sits there
> with a blinking cursor.
> I have tried specifying things such as noapic, nolapic and acpi=off
> but this doesnt help as it hasnt even loaded my kernel at this point
> to pass anything too.
So it's a laptop ?

> Can anybody help? I have been trying to fix this for the last 10 hours!
> I think I want to cry :(
Please don't. A few questions and a few suggestions.
Suggestions : boot a live CD and try to see what's in it's belly.
/boot/grub/menu.lst (my favorite but possibly not the one that will fit)
and see what is written precisely in there.

Question : what was working fine on this machine preceedingly and for 
how long ? is it the right hdd indicated in this configuration ? I see
root(hd1,0) which looks to me like a first partition on a secondary hdd.

Do you have Grub on the first hdd Master Boot Record actually ?
Do you have the boot partition apart ? hem what else ? is it horrible if 
you needed reinstalling Dapper, in the worse case ?
Leaving to let the next bring his/her lights  :)

> Tom
Keep courage. Greetings, Joyce Markoll.


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