[NBLUG/talk] grub menu will not load

[Kyle Rankin]

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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