On Tuesday 28 July 2009 07:10 am, Florian Kriener wrote: > On Mark Neidorff wrote: > > I just installed Lenny on a new SATA disk in my AMD64 system (4 Gig of > > ram). > > > > and the installer formatted it for me. All the normal steps...network, > > time....(I've done installs before. I have etch on hda in the same > > box). Packages installed and configured without error. Set up root and > > my accounts. Installed grub to boot the system then the big reboot, > > and.... > > > > Error loading operating system > > > > no grub menu. Black screen with white letters 80 X 25 mode. > > > > Any idea what may have messed up and how to get the system booting? > > If I understand you correctly you have at least two disks in your system > and one of them is a PATA drive and the other is a SATA drive. This could > lead to some confusion for the boot loader, because the order in which the > drives are set up by the BIOS may differ from what your boot loader thinks > it is (meaning the mapping from (hdX) to /dev/[hs]dY might be wrong). For > this you got the /boot/grub/device.map file. Please make sure, that the > entries in that file are correct. Additionally you have to make sure you > install your boot loader in the first hard disk (as seen from your BIOS). > > What you can do now is to unplug all but one hard disk and try to boot and > see if your error persists. I would suggest to unplug your SATA drive > first. If you cannot boot into etch your SATA drive is most probably the > first drive and you installed grub to your PATA drive. If you can boot > into etch your SATA drive is still the first one, but you installed grub > to your SATA drive and have a bad device.map file, or did not install grub > at all. And so on. >
I changed the order of the drives in the bios section that controls boot order and now the system boots correctly. Many thanks, Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org