Grub Problem.. blinking cursor

gbkyle · Apprentice Joined: 29 Nov 2004 Posts: 150 Location: Jersey

Hey, im having some problems with grub.. When i boot my PC, i just get a blinking cursor..

my fdisk outputs

seeboo · n00b Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 27 Location: Germany

I'm not really sure, because i have an extra partition for /boot but..

gbkyle · Apprentice Joined: 29 Nov 2004 Posts: 150 Location: Jersey

I see a blinking cursor... grub doesnt load.. but then like 30 seconds later a blurry screen pops up loading the kernel it looks like, then i can see the words kernel panic.. its weird.

Any Ideas?
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seeboo · n00b Joined: 07 Mar 2005 Posts: 27 Location: Germany

Try Grub without the grubsplash, then you should see grub.
About the Kernel Panic.. I don't know, search the Forum there should be many threads about kernel panic

EDIT: What are that $ in your grub.conf in the kernel line for?

Maedhros · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 2:49 pm Post subject:

Try commenting out the splashimage line for now, to make sure that isn't the problem. Grub doesn't do any checking to make sure it's a valid file, and you can get some weird results if it isn't, or it doesn't exist for some reason. In the same vein, you could also try removing the video= line in your kernel config so you can at least see what the kernel panic is telling you.

If the kernel panic complains about a lack of a block disk, make sure you've compiled support for your SATA chipset, and SCSI hard-drive support into your kernel. Both these options are in the SCSI section - look for SCSI low level drivers for the chipset driver.
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