Screen flashes at boot, grub fails to initialize

[Panruru]

I just installed Mint Debian on a Samsung laptop with an i3 processor. The installation went fine, but when I try to boot it up the screen flashes on and off continuously. When I put in a live cd it starts behaving normally, and I can boot it by selecting "boot from local drive". When I do this, it goes to the grub splash screen and boots as normal. Can anyone shed any light on this problem?

[ctigs]

Does the system ever make it to the boot menu?

[zerozero]

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[Panruru]

Does the system ever make it to the boot menu?

No, not unless I use a live CD.

[wayne128]

Try to reinstall grub2 onto MBR of your hard disk.

[herostrates]

Hi,

I'm facing the same issue with LMDE 2013.03 Cinnamon stable. After successful installation (with Grub in MBR), the computer restarts over and over when it should display the Grub menu. I see only black screen flashing continuously. When I boot from live cd, its Grub shows up and I can boot from local disk using menu and then my own Grub is run and it works fine.

I tried reinstalling Grub and the whole system (with recreating the partition table). Setting Grub timeout to 0 also didn't help. My computer is Samsung NP300E5A laptop.

Thanks in advance for your help.

[herostrates]

I tried MATE edition and installing Grub on partition instead of MBR. No effect - computer keeps restarting instead of starting Grub.
And for the record - I have disabled EFI boot in BIOS.

Boot repair info:
http://paste.debian.net/243991/

[herostrates]

I managed to fix the problem by setting boot flag to sda1 manually.
Why did I have to? Grub is installed in MBR.