Can not boot from grub menu...

[Avi Greenbury]

Larry Shields wrote:

> *Well it seems that I have a two problems, but first this one, when I
> bootup my system I used to get a choice of which HD I wanted to
> start, now upon booting up, the menu no-longer appears, and the
> system just gives me a blank screen...Could it be that the MBR has
> messed up for this not to work...??? If so how can I fix the mbr..???
> 
> If nothing can be done then as much as I hate too, I will just
> re-install ubuntu again...

A reinstall is highly unlikely to be necessary - an error that early
is a problem with some part of the process prior to booting the
kernel, and that's just a series of independent steps which pass bits
off to each other. If it's any lower-level than Grub then a reinstall
wont help, and if the problem is in grub then you may as well just fix
grub rather than clobber the rest of an otherwise-functioning system.


That menu that gave you a choice of HD, do you know if it was literally
a choice of HD (i.e. from the BIOS) or a choice of Operating System
(even if those OSes were on different disks) (i.e. from Grub)?

Will the system boot off a LiveCD?

-- 
Avi