I never get to the Grub menu. It just says GRUB and I assume it is trying to load GRUB at that point. The IRQ information shown at boot time is still visible on the screen above the word GRUB.
On Oct 22, 6:43 pm, Janaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are you saying that Grub itself freezes or that loading of the kernel > by grub freezes ? Can you enter the grub menu, by pressing Esc key, > when you first get the Grub line ? By default I think grub timeout is > 3 secs, so you'll have to press the Esc before that timeout. > > On Oct 23, 6:58 am, Tom Draper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have already installed 8.04 on two home machines and I am a big fan. > > I tried installing 8.04 on an older machine last night (Athlon 1700 > > with IDE drives). The live CD worked fine. The installation process > > had no problem. After rebooting the machine, the BIOS checks pass, and > > then it freezes with only the word > > GRUB > > > I'm not sure why it is stopping there. I reinstalled 5 times last > > tried varying things slightly, and having different hard disks as my > > install disk. Every time it booted it stopped with > > GRUB > > > Also, if I boot from the live CD and then ask it to boot from the hard > > disk, it freezes in the same way. > > > Some of my crazy guesses: > > I noticed that during the install it recognized my IDE drives as SCSI > > drives instead. I read something about 40 and 80 pin cables causing > > problems. > > > Do I need some option like acpi=off? I seem to recall having to do > > something similar years ago when I installed Fedora Core on the box. > > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ubuntu Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/ubuntulinux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
