[SOLVED] Problem with grub on installation

GNU GRUB version 0.97 (639k lower/523200k upper memory

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I googled around the issue, and found this post.
The guy says that his bios won't support grub, but I have grub installed as we speak, plus I had already installed arch before on this machine, with this very iso. It's not a problem with the CD as I've tried to boot it on another computer and it works fine. Can I boot Archlive from this shell? With what commands? What's causing the issue?
I hope someone helps me solve this quickly as I need my archsystem up and running as soon as possible
Thanks

10-21-2008	#2 (permalink)
sdimhoff Linux Newbie Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 184	Since you are booting from the CD I'm not sure how much help this link will be. You may be able to modify the commands from that post so that they point to the kernel image on the cd (not on the hard drive like the post does). But check some more on google, I searched for "booting from a grub shell" Booting from grub shell \| Chris Searle As of right now that would be my best guess. I haven't ever run across a system where the bios conflict with grub, but I suppose anything is possible. Good luck! __________________ Linux since: 2001 Gentoo since: 2004 - - - - - - - - Translation: I fix things until they break.

10-21-2008	#3 (permalink)
Jonathan183 Linux Guru Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 2,410	I thought syslinux was used for CDROM ... on my Arch CD there does not appear to be a grub config, but there is an isolinux.cfg which contains ... Code: prompt 1 timeout 300 display boot.msg F1 boot.msg F2 options.msg default arch label arch kernel vmlinuz append initrd=initrd.img rootdelay=5 label lowmem kernel vmlinuz append initrd=lowmem.img rootdelay=5 You said you had used that ISO to install before ... are you using CD-R rather than read/write media?

10-21-2008	#4 (permalink)
Alcap Just Joined! Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 3	I've solved it the hard way I've installed the system today with the 2008.03 CD. Don't know if your methods would have worked, but thanks anyway