[NBLUG/talk] grub menu will not load

[Ryan Culley]

hi Kyle,
I have ACPI BIOS version 1.30.  Wasn't sure this was the "real" BIOS
interface but according to Toshiba it is.
http://uk.computers.toshiba-europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/faq.jsp?service=UK&from=faq_selection&CFID=BIOS&FID=0000000401

I'm not sure what i should change but there is a field called BOOT
PRIORITY and it was set for FDD->HDD->CD-ROM->LAN  (those are all the
icons I mentioned earlier.)  So changed to HDD->CD-ROM-> LAN-> FDD but
this did nothing.

Can you recommend what I should alter in this BIOS to have the drive
be in LBA mode?

Thanks,
Ryan


On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 14:36:11 -0800, Kyle Rankin <kyle at nblug.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:22:05PM -0800, Ryan Culley wrote:
> > Hello folks,
> >
> > I am stuck with a Toshiba Tecra laptop with WindowsXP and Ubunto linux
> > partitions that will not load the grub menu.  I recently added the
> > Ubuntu partition and everything seemed to be working fine until the
> > grub menu failed to come up.  I can barely see "grub loading..." flash
> > across the screen and then it switches to a Toshiba boot menu and back
> > and forth.  I also tried using the various boot icons that Toshiba
> > puts on the screen but only using the one I perceive to be a "CD"
> > works with a bootable CD such as Knoppix.
> >
> > I googled and found Kyle Rankin's write-up for re-installing grub:
> > http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/02/knpxhks_1.html
> >
> > 4 hours later, i've discovered that re-installing grub with Knoppix
> > did not help and it likely that wasn't the real problem anyway but I
> > had fun doing it.
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas what I could try to get the grub menu back
> > up?  And what hosed it up?
> >
> > Would it help if I posted the contents of grub's menu.1st file?
> >
> > Thanks for all suggestions and comments!
> > Ryan
> >
> 
> Just a hunch, but sometimes these problems crop up when the BIOS is set to
> autodetect the format for the hard drive. Try going into your BIOS and
> setting the drive to LBA mode manually.
> 
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