[Herefordshire] looping boot

[Gordon Alabaster]

Hi Julian,

I had LILO as the boot loader when I just had XP and Mandrake, and this
worked. I could try putting LILO back again, good suggestion as I can then
see if it is my configuration in some way.

I love KNOPPIX and I used it to get my floppy boot disk going. All drives 
seem to mount OK for Knoppix. I shall look
up fsck and see what it can tell me.

Thanks

Gordon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Julian Robbins" <joolsr at fastmail.fm>
To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 12:19 AM
Subject: Re: [Herefordshire] looping boot


> Gordon Alabaster wrote:
>
>> I have installed Fedora Core 3 from a DVD that came with the Red Hat
>> Fedora Linux 3 Bible, on a second hard drive, along with Windows XP on
>> the first drive and Mandrake 10.1 on the second hard drive. The install
>> seemed to go fine but the boot just keeps getting to load Grub stage 1.5
>> (I think) and then it starts the boot process again, looping forever. I
>> have a floppy with Grub on that I made earlier and I can boot from that
>> into any of the systems.
>>
>> I have played around with the grub.confg file and have a duplicate on the
>> floppy, so I do not think it is getting to reference that.
>>
>> I have tried to reinstall Grub on the MBR on the main hard disk, twice,
>> but the looping continues.
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas?
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Gordon.
>
>
> Hi Gordon
>
> I'm afraid I cant help. It sounds quite an odd one. You could try another
> way of doing it by installing LILO instead and seeing if its the same.
>
> Is your hard disk ok? Sometimes linux is more picky about disks than
> Windows if there are problems with it. Linux is usually right and doesnt
> gloss over the issue as Windows may.
>
> Also try booting with Knoppix to check you can mount your drive(s) ok. and
> run a fsck (filesystem check) on them.
>
> Anyone else any ideas ?
>
> Julian
>
>
>
>
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