Re: [Bug-grub] Re: GRUB hangs

[Jason Thomas]

If you have a win9x floppy handy with fdisk boot it and run 'fdisk /mbr'

This will rewrite your mbr (which i think is screwed up somehow).

Then boot linux using your rescue disk, and reinstall grub using
'grub-install /dev/hde'

When you restored your machine from backup to the new hard drive you
should not have restored the mbr. The drive is almost always going to be
different to your previous drive so you need to use the grub-install to
install grub. as file will be in a different location on the hard drive.



On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 01:12:07PM -0800, grenoml wrote:
> Some more info.  I'm noticing that right as the GRUB message appears
> that the system is trying to read from the floppy drive even though
> there is no floppy in the drive and the hard drive light never lights. 
> I compared this to another linux system using GRUB and the system boots
> without trying to access the floppy.  It only accesses the hard drive. 
> Now the question is why is it doing this?