Hi all,
My computer at work is a WinXP system. Yesterday I used a Debian Sarge official installer to make the system into a dual boot system. Everything went fine until the reboot. When the system reboots, I see:
Grub loading stage 1.5 Grub loading, please wait... Error 21
The system doesn't boot at all.
My guess is the grub install got messed up. You can try re-installing grub from a linux self-boot CD. I've done this a couple times using Knoppix, so I know it works. Once Knoppix boots up, get a terminal, become root, and run "grub". Then do something like (pasted from gentoo install manual):
grub> root (hd0,0) (Specify where your /boot partition resides) grub> setup (hd0) (Install GRUB in the MBR) grub> quit (Exit the GRUB shell)
You can do tab completion for the "hdx,x" part to see if everything is detected properly. I /think/ grub uses BIOS info for this (but I could be wrong).
Grub will also fail very early if it can't find your /boot/grub/menu.1st file. I would double check that it exists and looks correct.
HTH, Jonathan _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
