GRUB ?

[Pastor JW]

On Thursday 28 August 2008 10:07:13 am Rashkae wrote:
> Pastor JW wrote:
> > On Thursday 28 August 2008 06:27:25 am Rashkae wrote:
> >> Boot the system with your pen drive in there and look in the
> >> /boot/grub/menu.lst file
> >>
> >> Look for a section that looks like:
> >> ## default grub root device
> >> ## e.g. groot=(hd0,0)
> >> # groot=(hd0,1)
> >>
> >> And let me know what your groot is set too.
> >
> > His is:
> >
> >  ## default grub root device
> >  ## e.g. groot=(hd0,0)
> >  # groot=(hd0,1) /ubuntu/disks
>
> I think the bios must be trying to boot form something else besides the
> hard drive.  Can you get into the the bios and maker certain that the
> 1st boot device is the hard drive?

first drive is CD, then harddrive, then usb, then floppy but there of course 
is no floppy.  The laptop does not belong to me. No one changed the BIOS, in 
fact he had to get info off the net to even find out how to get into the bios 
today.  It worked fine until Tuesday evening he said.  Then it would not 
boot, just the word "GRUB" with a blinking cursor line.  He brought it into 
town for me to look at the next day.  Lives about 35 miles away and without 
internet working it is long distance phone calls.    

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