On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Basil Chupin wrote: > [pruned] > No. I don't get to the grub menu. If I did I wouldn't be too worried (well :-) > ) because I would be able to at least boot into Windows but I cannot because > the grub menu does not come up.
I do not know if this will assist you or not, but I thought I should share two experiences I had a similar problem once when grub got corupted. I had to boot using the install CD. I choose repair existing system. After logging in as root I mounted the root filesystem to /mnt I am going to use what I had as an example # mount /dev/hda5 /mnt # cd /mnt # chroot /mnt # mount /dev/hda4 /boot # mkinitrd # yast2 I then choose grub install and installed grub to /dev/hda4 and copied the old boot to the new boot change menu.lst. I also boot into XP with the systems. I was then able to reboot the system. On an other system where the BIOS does not support > 1024 I had to use the partitioner to delete swap create a boot partition of about 50 MB and use the rest for swap. I have a 200-300 MB Dos partition as /dev/hda1, NTFS as /dev/hda2, a linux swap on /dev/hda3 that became boot, change to extended partition to include the extra space that was in swap and made /dev/hda4 a linux swap. Just becareful and have a backup of your critical stuff. > All that happens is I get the Error #18 message as soon as grub kicks in on > boot and all I see is the grub> prompt followed by the error #18 statement. After the above I was able to use the auto repair of the system. Good Luck, -- Boyd Gerber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
