On Sat, Sep 08, 2007 at 07:45:36PM -0400, Victor Munoz wrote: > Hello. It's been about a week that I've been unable to boot normally. > Every time I get the grub prompt, and then I have to go through the > sequence of commands "root/kernel/initrd/boot". I understand that this > may occur due to some defective file, but I can't see anything > abnormal in menu.lst, device.map, or fstab.
can you manually load the menu.lst? grub> configfile (hd1,0)/grub/menu.list should get you a menu. Its at least easier than type all the root, kernel etc lines. > > This is a dual boot box, Windows in /dev/hdc [(hd0,0) for grub], Sid > in /dev/hdd [(hd1,0)]. I have several kernels installed: 2.6.18-4-686, > 2.6.21-2-686, 2.6.22-1-686, 2.6.22-2-686. 21-2 and 22-1 can't > boot, saying something about BIOS being unable to handle the number of > cylinders. I don't know if this suggests something's wrong with my > system, but 18 and 22-2 boot just fine (except for the fact that I > always get the grub prompt), and the boot process was > normal until a couple of weeks ago. hmmm... that's a little fishy. can we see your (as root) fdisk -l /dev/hda your menu.lst et al looks fine though I just only glanced through them. A
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