grub loading problem, for help

grub loading problem, for help

[jay.s]

thanks in advance.

I am doing as a document advice, since I havn't the choice of change boot sequence to NETWORK boot option in bios, I did ./configure without "--enable-diskonchip-biosnetboot ", now I halt the system and reboot it, it says :

DoC 2000 D800
E698
Jumping to Grub

then nothing appeared on the screen, the keyboard is not locked.

accidently, I reboot the system without the hard disk, things were changed as follows:

DoC 2000 D800
D698
Jumping to Grub
Attempting to open /boot/grub/menu.lst on drive 0xe0, partition 0xff
DiskOnChip 2000 found at d8000
floor 0, chip 0; manufacturer:Toshiba
Chip: Toshiba TC58V64AFT/DC, total size:8 MiB
erase unit: 8192 bytes, page: 512 bytes
total of 1 chip2 found - total capacity 8 MiB
Scanning for NFTL Media Header
NFTL Media Header found in flash sector 192
spare Media Header for NFTL 0 fount in flash sector 208
Attempting to open /boot/grub/menu.lst on drive 0xe0, partition 0xff
Attempting to open /boot/grub/menu.lst on drive 0xe0, partition 0x0
Attempting to open /boot/grub/menu.lst on drive 0xe0, partition 0x1
.....................
Attempting to open /boot/grub/menu.lst on drive 0xe0, partition 0xf
Attempting to open /boot/grub/menu.lst on drive 0x80, partition 0xff
Attempting to open /boot/grub/menu.lst on drive 0x80, partition 0xff
Attempting to open /boot/grub/menu.lst on drive 0x80, partition 0xf0
.....................
Attempting to open /boot/grub/menu.lst on drive 0x80, partition 0xf
Attempting to open /boot/grub/menu.lst on drive 0x0, partition 0xff
Attempting to open /boot/grub/menu.lst on drive 0x0, partition 0x0
.....................
Attempting to open /boot/grub/menu.lst on drive 0x0, partition 0xf

GRUB version 0.93 (616k lower / 31744k upper memory)

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grub>


I feel lucky to see the prompt, however I cant access the doc anymore( I have tried to use "kernel ...." according to that howto), I have installed the contents in the doc and also the grub/menu.lst, but nothing help. Because I don't know grub much, I don't know what to do then.

could you have any suggestions?

regards

jays

Re: grub loading problem, for help

[Ilguiz Latypov]

Jay,

On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 jay.s@sohu.com wrote:

> grub>
> 
> 
> I feel lucky to see the prompt, however I cant access the doc anymore( I
> have tried to use "kernel ...." according to that howto), I have
> installed the contents in the doc and also the grub/menu.lst, but
> nothing help. Because I don't know grub much, I don't know what to do
> then.

Does the "root (dc0)" or the "root (dc0,0)" command work?  Can you see the 
content of the menu.lst file by typing "cat /boot/grub/menu.lst"?  I 
always create a symbolic link when preparing the boot partition:

    cd boot
    ln -s . boot

In this way the path /boot/grub/menu.lst will resolve even when /boot is a 
mount point.

Also one has to make sure that the DoC's filesystem can be mounted at all 
(that is, mount -t ext3 /dev/nftla2 /mnt/flash or similar must work).  
It's easy to do mounting probe by booting off the hard disk first.

Ilguiz