Grub infinite loop problem on dual boot system

2013-01-28 Thread Gary Roach
Hi all; I have a Toshiba Qosmio laptop that has 2 60 GB drives. I formatted one with the Windows XP that is needed to run all of the bells and whistles that the Qosmio provides. I installed Debian Squeeze on the other drive and used Grub as the boot loader. This setup worked fine. I recently

Re: Grub infinite loop problem on dual boot system

2013-01-28 Thread sp113438
On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:15:07 -0800 Gary Roach gary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: Hi all; I have a Toshiba Qosmio laptop that has 2 60 GB drives. I formatted one with the Windows XP that is needed to run all of the bells and whistles that the Qosmio provides. I installed Debian Squeeze on the

Re: Grub infinite loop problem on dual boot system

2013-01-28 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/28/2013 02:57 PM, sp113438 wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:15:07 -0800 Gary Roachgary719_li...@verizon.net wrote: Hi all; I have a Toshiba Qosmio laptop that has 2 60 GB drives. I formatted one with the Windows XP that is needed to run all of the bells and whistles that the Qosmio

Re: Grub infinite loop problem on dual boot system

2013-01-28 Thread Shane Johnson
Gary, I've never used the net install image I use live image but it should be similar. Get to a command line and then use sudo to mount the Debian partition somewhere. Once it's mounted you can run chroot {path to where you mounted} /bin/bash --login. This will make it so the commands you run

Re: Grub infinite loop problem on dual boot system

2013-01-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Gary Roach wrote: I have a Toshiba Qosmio laptop that has 2 60 GB drives. I formatted one with the Windows XP that is needed to run all of the bells and whistles that the Qosmio provides. I installed Debian Squeeze on the other drive and used Grub as the boot loader. This setup worked fine.