Re: System booting to the GRUB prompt instead of menu

2006-04-19 Thread Manaen Schlabach 
On 4/19/06, Yu,Glen [Ontario] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Hi everyone,

 This is a question about GRUB not on Debian, but SuSE.  I just felt that this 
 is not really a Debian-specific topic so I decided to ask here so don't flame 
 me if you don't like it..

 First of all, I don't really like splash screens/pics during boot and would 
 rather see the details so a couple of days ago I removed the option that said 
 splash=silent (it was there by default) in my /boot/grub/menu.lst .  Since 
 then it has taken me to the GRUB prompt rather than showing me the menu 
 options.  I was able to boot in by typing the commands:

 root (hd0,0)
 kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda4 ro
 initrd /boot/initrd
 boot

 I've tried adding that option back in and I've tried repairing GRUB, but is 
 not able to rectify the problem.  It appears to me like GRUB isn't reading 
 from /boot/grub/menu.lst at all!!  I've posted this question in various 
 forums but so far no help whatsoever.  If anyone has any suggestions, I would 
 like to hear it.

 Thanks in advance,
 -Glen

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Suse doesn't have a mailing list?  Oh well at least it's not brocolli

Your grub menu.lst file should look something like this bear in mind
this is only an example your partitions will of course look
differently hd(x,y)


gfxmenu (hd0,4)/message
color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0
timeout 8

title linux
   kernel (hd0,4)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda7 vga=791
   initrd (hd0,4)/initrd

title windows
   chainloader(hd0,0)+1

title floppy
   chainloader(fd0)+1

title failsafe
   kernel (hd0,4)/vmlinuz.shipped root=/dev/hda7 ide=nodma \
   apm=off acpi=off vga=normal nosmp maxcpus=0 3
   initrd (hd0,4)/initrd.shipped


It's very possible that you deleted more that just your splash=silent
if you are having trouble booting now.  It would be easier to help if
you posted your menu.lst file.

If you wanted to disable SuSe splash screen you could have done this

Enter the command echo 0 /proc/splash on the command line to disable
the graphical screen. To activate it again, enter echo 1
/proc/splash.


All of this information is available for free at Novell's site

http://www.novell.com/documentation/suse10/index.html?page=/documentation/suse10/adminguide/data/sec_grub_basic.html

Re: System booting to the GRUB prompt instead of menu

2006-04-19 Thread Mike McCarty 

Yu,Glen [Ontario] wrote:

Hi everyone,


[snip]


would rather see the details so a couple of days ago I removed the
option that said splash=silent (it was there by default) in my
/boot/grub/menu.lst . Since then it has taken me to the GRUB prompt


[snip]


I've tried adding that option back in and I've tried repairing GRUB,
but is not able to rectify the problem.  It appears to me like GRUB
isn't reading from /boot/grub/menu.lst at all!!  I've posted this
question in various forums but so far no help whatsoever.  If anyone
has any suggestions, I would like to hear it.


Maybe it isn't. Do you have a /boot/grub/grub.conf file?

Mike
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RE: System booting to the GRUB prompt instead of menu

2006-04-19 Thread Yu,Glen [Ontario] 
Hmm...now that you mention it, I don't recall seeing it.  I don't have my 
laptop infront of me right now, but I'll be sure to check it out when I get 
home tonight.  /boot/grub/grub.conf - /boot/grub/menu.lst   right?



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-Original Message-
From: Mike McCarty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 12:43 PM
To: Yu,Glen [Ontario]
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: System booting to the GRUB prompt instead of menu


Yu,Glen [Ontario] wrote:
 Hi everyone,

[snip]

 would rather see the details so a couple of days ago I removed the
 option that said splash=silent (it was there by default) in my
 /boot/grub/menu.lst . Since then it has taken me to the GRUB prompt

[snip]

 I've tried adding that option back in and I've tried repairing GRUB,
 but is not able to rectify the problem.  It appears to me like GRUB
 isn't reading from /boot/grub/menu.lst at all!!  I've posted this
 question in various forums but so far no help whatsoever.  If anyone
 has any suggestions, I would like to hear it.

Maybe it isn't. Do you have a /boot/grub/grub.conf file?

Mike
-- 
p=p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);};main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}
This message made from 100% recycled bits.
You have found the bank of Larn.
I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you.
I speak only for myself, and I am unanimous in that!

Re: System booting to the GRUB prompt instead of menu

2006-04-19 Thread Mike McCarty 

Yu,Glen [Ontario] wrote:

Hmm...now that you mention it, I don't recall seeing it.  I don't have my laptop 
infront of me right now, but I'll be sure to check it out when I get home tonight. 
 /boot/grub/grub.conf - /boot/grub/menu.lst   right?



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-Original Message-
From: Mike McCarty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 12:43 PM
To: Yu,Glen [Ontario]
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: System booting to the GRUB prompt instead of menu


Yu,Glen [Ontario] wrote:


Hi everyone,



[snip]



would rather see the details so a couple of days ago I removed the
option that said splash=silent (it was there by default) in my
/boot/grub/menu.lst . Since then it has taken me to the GRUB prompt



[snip]



I've tried adding that option back in and I've tried repairing GRUB,
but is not able to rectify the problem.  It appears to me like GRUB
isn't reading from /boot/grub/menu.lst at all!!  I've posted this
question in various forums but so far no help whatsoever.  If anyone
has any suggestions, I would like to hear it.



Maybe it isn't. Do you have a /boot/grub/grub.conf file?

Mike


AFAIK, grub doesn't read /boot/grub/menu.lst, it reads
/boot/grub/grub.conf

Mike
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