Pieter Agten wrote: > Hello, > > A couple of weeks ago I installed Debian Stable (3.1) on a PII 400Mhz > with a 80GB harddisk, everything worked fine. I had to replace this > harddisk with a different one (also 80GB) and I did this by cloning the > original disk to this new one with HDClone 3.1. After replacing the > harddisk, the system doesn't boot anymore: when I should see the GRUB > Boot Menu, the system just reboots. So now it is stuck in a reboot loop. > > The exact boot process is as follows: > - System POST > - I see 'GRUB Loading stage1.5.' and 'GRUB loading, please wait...' for > about half a second. > - Reboot > > I am sure the HDClone 3.1 program works flawlessly because I have used > it before (on linux systems) and it has never failed. Furthermore, I > have had this problem before on an entirely different system, right > after the Debian installation (so on that system I never had even one > correct boot with GRUB). > > How can I solve this problem? One fix might be to install LILO instead > of GRUB, but what is the best way to do this? I replaced GRUB by LILO > once before, and after that, everytime I would install a different (home > made) kernel, I had to adjust the lilo.conf and run lilo manually, so I > would like to avoid that. If it is possible, I would like to keep GRUB... > If you didn't set a password for grub, you can select the option in the grub menu and press e for edit. This permits you to edit the command line executed by grub. Add a "noreboot" at the end of the line that starts with kernel and this way you can see the messages for linux at boot up.
Miguel Cobá > Thanks in advance! > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
