hey guys, i have an interesting one. the other day my computer at home started for no aparent reason (i had'nt been fiddling or doing anything stupid on it... last time i used it i logged off & shut down normally) to display the following message when it starts up:
GRUB loading stage 2
then it just sits theere doing nothing. i'm running suse 9.3. anyone got any clues? is more info needed?
cheers... David Nicholls Computer Support Consultant d.nicholls at waikato.ac.nz School of Science & Engineering / Dept of Chemistry The University of Waikato Hamilton, New Zealand
Stage 2 of Grub might be corrupt or you may have a HD problem (less likely).
Put "GRUB loading stage 2 suse hang" (remove quotation marks) into a a Google search, the top topic is from a SuSe forum, having the same problem with the same version.
Felix
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:04, David Nicholls wrote:
hey guys, i have an interesting one. the other day my computer at home started for no aparent reason (i had'nt been fiddling or doing anything stupid on it... last time i used it i logged off & shut down normally) to display the following message when it starts up:
GRUB loading stage 2
then it just sits theere doing nothing. i'm running suse 9.3. anyone got any clues? is more info needed?
cheers... David Nicholls Computer Support Consultant d.nicholls at waikato.ac.nz School of Science & Engineering / Dept of Chemistry The University of Waikato Hamilton, New Zealand
Messagenever had that problem suse 9.3 runs fine at my place ----- Original Message ----- From: David Nicholls To: Waikato Linux Users Group Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 11:04 AM Subject: [wlug] grub prob
hey guys, i have an interesting one. the other day my computer at home started for no aparent reason (i had'nt been fiddling or doing anything stupid on it... last time i used it i logged off & shut down normally) to display the following message when it starts up:
GRUB loading stage 2
then it just sits theere doing nothing. i'm running suse 9.3. anyone got any clues? is more info needed?
cheers... David Nicholls Computer Support Consultant d.nicholls at waikato.ac.nz School of Science & Engineering / Dept of Chemistry The University of Waikato Hamilton, New Zealand
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