Guest andirollo Posted June 20, 2004 Report Share Posted June 20, 2004 I have installed Mandrake 10 Community, everything seemed to go fine but when it reboots I get grub> Sorry for being a complete thicky but what am I supposed to do now? Also can anyone point me in the direction of a good site/book where I can learn these things from scratch thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
liquidzoo Posted June 20, 2004 Report Share Posted June 20, 2004 When you get to the grub menu, there should be an entry that says linux. If you press enter on that entry, it will boot you into Mandrake. If you have Windows on that machine as well, there should be an entry that says Windows that will boot you into that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 20, 2004 Report Share Posted June 20, 2004 you've gotten the text version of grub. pressing tab will output your boot options. by default, they should be "windows" and "linux" type in linux and hit enter to boot linux, type in windows and hit enter to boot windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 20, 2004 Report Share Posted June 20, 2004 What is your setup? Hardware etc? Getting grub> is not a good thing. If doing linux and windows doesn't do anything, do; find /boot/grub/menu.lst and post what it says. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest andirollo Posted June 21, 2004 Report Share Posted June 21, 2004 Thanks for the earlier replies. However at the grub> if I put either linux or windows it comes back with unrecognizable command. Tried the find/boot/grub/menu.lst get the same resonse If I hit tab it gives a list of commands boot, setup,find etc haven't a clue where i am going wrong Incidently i am trying to dual boot with XP home, Athlon XP3000 , 1054 ram, 160Gb harddrive with loads of space left. I had already partitioned the hard drive with Acronis for a 20gb partition for Mandrake. Hope this helps someone point me in the right direction Andrew Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted June 21, 2004 Report Share Posted June 21, 2004 try typing in: boot and hit enter. see what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest andirollo Posted June 21, 2004 Report Share Posted June 21, 2004 Tried entering boot but it tells me the kernel must be loaded? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 Tried the find/boot/grub/menu.lst get the same resonse you did put the space in between 'find' and '/boot/grub/menu.lst' didn't you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest andirollo Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 Sorry didn,t put the space in (told you I was a complete thicky) Now I have done this it comes up with Error 15: file not found Do I need to re-install - if so where do I put the loader? root directory or MBR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted June 22, 2004 Report Share Posted June 22, 2004 Do a reinstall... using as many defaults as you can.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leo Posted June 23, 2004 Report Share Posted June 23, 2004 Sorry didn,t put the space in (told you I was a complete thicky) Don't worry, we've all done it (alright I'VE done it, I was just trying to bring the rest of you down with me :D ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest andirollo Posted June 23, 2004 Report Share Posted June 23, 2004 Well re-installed - let it partition everything. gues what grub> tried the find /boot/grub/menu.lst - couldn.t find it Anybody have any other suggestions Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted June 23, 2004 Report Share Posted June 23, 2004 (edited) Are you putting grub on the mbr? or /? boot with cd1>press F1 at the splash screen>type rescue and press Enter>Choose Mount your partitions under /mnt>choose Got To Console>do; chroot /mount at this point did you see any errors? Post them ALL. Then post /boot/grub/menu.lst and /etc/fstab you can quickly and easily see them by putting cat and a space in front of them cat /boot/grub/menu.lst cat /etc/fstab oh, and; df -h BTW, menu.lst is with an L (list)=.lst hope that's how you did it. Edited June 23, 2004 by bvc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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