From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dsh1I-0003mR-Li for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:11:25 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6DD9SOu009214; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:09:28 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.192]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6DD4uwr005085 for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:04:56 GMT Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i28so148583wra for ; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 06:05:57 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=sKWgXb2XjJsbqfL0cUi/f3z4U6SKywjI8K2OAi6+KXS4ChObyNGxuqeZu6+C6/16CBlRYWM4DnFT9PRuAyDF7jKxNMfTRCYheijb2lsID++kNkJNE52rwGQLe4+aSdONtikz0LDUwOjDEdRO+s/ppmhpsbd/4yJSnYRuAGbjjYg= Received: by 10.54.35.58 with SMTP id i58mr288811wri; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 06:05:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.106.20 with HTTP; Wed, 13 Jul 2005 06:05:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 09:05:15 -0400 From: louis brazeau To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB....etc In-Reply-To: <5or9d11ajm1aql2ufbsl43qlo7eitjc6so@4ax.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <5or9d11ajm1aql2ufbsl43qlo7eitjc6so@4ax.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id j6DD4uwr005085 X-Archives-Salt: 17660826-8ba1-4e2d-9f37-25134e21fb70 X-Archives-Hash: d2c3ebbe0b793c1a24d952cad5a1393b On 7/13/05, Jim Hatfield wrote: > Can someone remind me what it means when you just > get millions of GRUBs scrolling up the screen. > > Came back from a few days away and my box was locked up. > Rebooting gets me the GRUB menu but which ever kernel > I selected started to boot then scrolled up reams of very > nasty looking messages. Sounded like a hardware fault. > > So I reseated the memory, CPU, all connectors, and pulled out > the CMOS battery for a few minutes. Rebooted, let the BIOS > memory test run for a while, went into the BIOS setup, reset > to factory defaults, did a "reset configuration data". > > Now on boot I just get the continuous scrolling GRUBs. I've > seen it before but I can't remember what it means.... > > Jim > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > I've seen that one before. I solved it by setting the BIOS to LBA for that drive. But for some people the following link is the solution : http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/grub-error-guide.xml?style=printable -- Louis Brazeau Informaticien -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list