I have the same problem on an ASUS M2N8-VMX motherboard. After installation I could reach the boot menu occasionally, but most of the times it hang on GRUB loading, please wait for a while, about 20 s, then it enters the grub shell, where it occasionally worked with a "reboot" but most of the times not. This problem was noticed with grub 0.97. The installation CD (6.06) booted flawlessly (ok had to add noapic usb-handoff to not hang later)
To fix the grub hanging I copied grub 0.95 from another 64-bit machine (running debian sarge) /lib/grub/x86_64-pc/* /sbin/grub* and reinstalled grub, then it worked. Strange, however, is that it still takes a very long time (about 20 s) from "GRUB loading, please wait" until I get the boot menu. On other machines where I'm running grub I get the boot menu immediately. /Roland -- GRUB hangs on "please wait" on ASUS K8V-SE Deluxe https://launchpad.net/bugs/10535 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
