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Old 07-03-2008   #1 (permalink)
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GRUB Booting Error, Need help

Hi, I really appreciate if someone could help and advise on this. We have a phone system server that runs on LINUX. Currently we are have problem. When boothing up, the screen show "Grub loading stage 2", then later it give an message

GNU Grub version 0.95 (638K lower/515008K upper memory
[Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB list possible command completions. Anywhere elase TAB list the possible completions of a device/filename]

grub>


The above is what it appear on the screen and the system stop at this point with a grup> prompt.

I really appreciate if someone in this forum could assist and advise if we could get teh server to boot up as our phone system are down for the past one week.

Many thanks in advances.
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Do you get any output if you hit the "tab" key ?
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Execute this at grub> prompt :

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find /boot/grub/stage1
Post output here.

Have you upgraded packages recently? Which Linux distro/version are you using?
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Many thanks for your reply, really appreciate it.

Yes, there is a list of command
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Execute this at grub> prompt :

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find /boot/grub/stage1
Post output here.

Have you upgraded packages recently? Which Linux distro/version are you using?
Thanks for your help. After we issue that command, it says "file not found". we are using version 0.95. we did not do any upgrade recently.
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Many thanks for your reply, really appreciate it.

Yes, there is a list of command
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Boot up in Rescue Mode and execute this fdisk -l command. Post output here. Which Linux distribution are you using?
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Boot up in Rescue Mode and execute this fdisk -l command. Post output here. Which Linux distribution are you using?
Thanks. How do you booth up in rescue mode.
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Thanks. How do you booth up in rescue mode.
If your Linux distribution supports it, Insert the Linux Install CD, reboot the machine and select rescue mode from the boot prompt and then follow Devils Casper suggestion.
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If your Linux distribution supports it, Insert the Linux Install CD, reboot the machine and select rescue mode from the boot prompt and then follow Devils Casper suggestion.
Which Linux distribution are you using?

Thanks, we are using version 0.95. Unfortunately, we do not have a LINUX install disk. This is because this syetm is supply to us a a Telephone serer with LINUX OS. No disk was given to us.
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