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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New install boots but grub just says: grub>
Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 10:01:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080509100132.54788184@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0805082117k7fe62234j64c77a9023891920@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, 8 May 2008 21:17:47 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:

> What would cause grub to sit there and wait for me to type in the
> stuff that's in grub.conf anyway?

You probably have an error in grub.conf/menu.lst, or you have both and
GRUB is looking at the one you don't want it to (I think menu.lst takes
priority). GRUB isn't particularly friendly when things go wrong, I've
had it ignore a menu.lst it didn't like.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

WinErr 002: No Error - Yet

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-09  9:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-09  4:17 [gentoo-user] New install boots but grub just says: grub> Mark Knecht
2008-05-09  5:53 ` Dirk Heinrichs
2008-05-09  9:01 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2008-05-09  9:47   ` Mark Knecht

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