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Boot Problem

AliasX

Senior member
My computer has 3 hard drives. A 120gb, a 250gb, and a 500gb. All are internal. On the 120gb, there are two partitions, and I dual boot Windows and Linux. I run Sabayon Linux, and at the boot, a Sabayon Boot Selector appears and I press arrow down to select Other, which is Windows, and that is usually how my computer starts up.

Today I bought 3 new 80mm fans to replace the crappy stock ones in my case. I unplugged a few power cables in order to do so, and in so doing, and plugged them all back in when I was done.

Problem: I turn on my computer and it now takes me to a grub command line.

What happened? I didn't change anything other than the fans. Granted I unplugged the 5-pin from one of my hard drives and then put it back, but in BIOS all of my hard drives are still recognized, so it isn't as though one of them got messed up.

Any help? I'm kind of disparate.


When I navigate to /boot through my Sabayon Live CD, I cannot access my grub.conf.

The message is as follows:
An error occurred while loading system:/media/sdc1/grub/grub.conf:
Could not read /media/-boot/grub/grub.conf.

When I click Install on Disk, and select I want to repair Sabayon, it doesn't work. I can select "normal upgrade," or "bootloader configuration only," (which seems like exactly what I want to fix), and it says, "Error mounting device sdb1 as /boot: Invalid argument

This most likely means this partition has not been formatted.

Press OK to abort the Installation and consider to reboot your Computer."
 
A long shot. It is possible when installing the fans that some other connector was disturbed, most likely one that connects to the MB. Therefore, thoroughly check all MB connectors to ensure that they are properly seated. Next check the BIOS in the power management area & make sure that fan speed monitoring is turned off. (Although usually you'll get a major warning with a fan speed detection alert.) BIOSes have fan speed monitoring for RPM & Ive had situations that when Ive changed to slower RPM fans then the BIOS thinks that something is wrong & changes the system operation (usually halts booting & provides an audible alert).
 
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