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On 7/13/05, Jim Hatfield <subscriber@××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Can someone remind me what it means when you just |
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> get millions of GRUBs scrolling up the screen. |
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> Came back from a few days away and my box was locked up. |
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> Rebooting gets me the GRUB menu but which ever kernel |
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> I selected started to boot then scrolled up reams of very |
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> nasty looking messages. Sounded like a hardware fault. |
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> So I reseated the memory, CPU, all connectors, and pulled out |
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> the CMOS battery for a few minutes. Rebooted, let the BIOS |
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> memory test run for a while, went into the BIOS setup, reset |
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> to factory defaults, did a "reset configuration data". |
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> Now on boot I just get the continuous scrolling GRUBs. I've |
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> seen it before but I can't remember what it means.... |
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> Jim |
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> gentoo-user@g.o mailing list |
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I've seen that one before. |
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I solved it by setting the BIOS to LBA for that drive. But for some |
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people the following link is the solution : |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/grub-error-guide.xml?style=printable |
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Louis Brazeau |
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Informaticien |
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