Hi there!
I recently installed Bianca on my PC. It took the place of a previous Mandriva, which was installed as dual boot together with XP. Both OS were on hda, but I had LILO on hdb and I wanted to have the same configuraiton with Mint. So at the last prompt during the install process, I manually entered hd1 (instead of hd0) for GRUB. Everything went on perfectly, then it rebooted. I pressed F11 to choose my second hard drive, but then, I'm stuck on a black page that only reads "GRUB". I cannot enter anything on the keyboard and nothing happens. I checked with explore2fs : there is a /boot with a menu.lst file in it and it looks like everything's perfect.
Has any one of you experienced such troubles?
Thanks in advance
Grub doesn't load (just a 'prompt')
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Grub doesn't load (just a 'prompt')
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What do you exactly mean?
My LILO was on my second HD (hd1) and both XP and Mint are installed on partitions of the first HD (hda1 and hda5). This was also the case when I had Mandriva. On the second HD, there are only data. It might look weird to you, but I found it convenient to let the MBR of the master disk as is, just in case (imagine Grub doesn't work!). It worked just fine with Mandriva.
From what I understand of your post, you suggest Grub needs switching the HDs? I read some posts on this topic, but I don't think it's the problem since :
- when I boot from first HD, XP runs OK
- when I boot from the second HD, I have this GRUB black screen, sio I guess it is found.
My LILO was on my second HD (hd1) and both XP and Mint are installed on partitions of the first HD (hda1 and hda5). This was also the case when I had Mandriva. On the second HD, there are only data. It might look weird to you, but I found it convenient to let the MBR of the master disk as is, just in case (imagine Grub doesn't work!). It worked just fine with Mandriva.
From what I understand of your post, you suggest Grub needs switching the HDs? I read some posts on this topic, but I don't think it's the problem since :
- when I boot from first HD, XP runs OK
- when I boot from the second HD, I have this GRUB black screen, sio I guess it is found.
!