I broke it.

[RandomFool]

OK so i recently tried to switch to Mandrake 10.1 from Suse 9.2 and just sort of went through the installer hitting next a bunch of times. Anyways it finished setting up i restarted and it all it will give me is a "grub>" prompt. I tried running a couple commands that were rumored to fix it

find /boot/grub/stage2
root (hd0,4)
setup (hd0)

it did some stuff but didn't fix it. I know a little about this linux thing but not enougth to fix this. Any ideas?

-Ryan

 

[n0cmonkey]

Any ideas about what? grub is normal, it's a boot loader. What's the problem?

 

[RandomFool]

getting something other than the grub to come up when i start my computer?

 

[Hyperblaze]

so you want to remove grub?

did you install grub on your master boot record originally?

 

[TGS]

I think he wants to have it log into whatever his newly installed Mandrake 10.1 distro.

Load off of a bootable disk/cd and mount, your /boot file system, change the directory to /boot/grub, and make a symlink to /boot/grub/menu.lst


ln -s /boot/grub/grub.conf /boot/grub/menu.lst

That should make the appropriate link for the GUI menu to go through. If the syntax within the grub.conf file is incorrect, you'll have to fix it yourself unfortunately.

Here is a good link .

It has a quick tip to check your grub.conf via a cat command at the grub prompt.

IE

"grub> cat /boot/grub/grub.conf"