grub dumps to shell
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This seems only to happen in my Mitac laptop. I have not seen this on any of the dozens of other systems I have installed Mepis on.
When I boot the Mepis 2004.06 CD in my laptop I see a very quick message from the BIOS about non-emulation booting stage2 then I am stuck in the grub shell. From there I don't think I can do any thing. I don't know enough about using the grub shell to find out why it does this.
The exact same CD boot find in all my other computers.
I think the non-emulation has something to do with my laptop supporting multiple boot images on a CD. I have worked with that in the past but have never see this problem before.
If anyone knows how to get out of the grub shell please let me know. I tried quit but that does not work.
RE: GRUB problem
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link broken
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I'm having the same problem with a mitac laptop and can someone post an updated link please?
Many Thanks
scotchmizzed
easy solution
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I had the same problem with my laptop (Fujitsu Siemens Amilo M1420)
When I boot from SimplyMepis3.3 CD I end in a grub shell
To solve this problem I have made the following step:
1) Boot laptop using an already installed OS (winXP in my case).
2) copy "boot" directory from Mepis CD to a partition
3) reboot the laptop using Mepis CD to end at grub shell
4) in grub shell write the following:
grub>root (hd0,5)
grub>kernel /boot/vmlinuz2
grub>initrd /boot/initrd.gz
grub>boot
and Mepis will start loading.
(hd0) == my hard-disk
(hd0,5) == the partition with the previously copied "boot" (in my case)
to know which partition number you should use you need simply to use the "tab" key after setting the hard-disk so when you type:
grub>root (hd0,
simply press tab (don't press enter,I main press tab right after typing the ',' in '(hd0,' above ) and grub will display a list with available partitions.
let's say you have partitions: 0,3,5 and 6
then type:
grub>root (hd0,0)/
and now press tab again, grub will display a list with available directories on this partition, repeat this process until you find the "boot" directory,so let's say you found it when you were trying this with partion 3, now you need to use '(hd0,3)'.
use vmlinuz2 to start the 2.6 kernel,or use vmlinuz to start the 2.4 kernel.
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some times the answer is just there but why I can't see it?!
I have the same problem on
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I have the same problem on my Sager NP3790, currently running Win2k with NTFS partitions.
I just tried the steps above, but for both of my partitions, I get this message:
Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition.
Any idea on what to do next?
Same boot Grub problem
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I have the same problem with my Clevo laptop
Centrino 1.7MHz 2MB Dothan
512 MB DDR
80GB memory
16:10 screen with 1920x1200 resolution
SLimtype DVD+-RW
It just says "No emualtion booting" and stage2......
then it goes into grub shell which I don't know how to use to boot the CD
I have tried Suse 9.2 and it boots perfectly normal....
Have the same problem with Windows XP ("No emulation booting") but it boots anyway....
Please help! Anybody?!