I'm not sure what might be wrong.
Try reinstalling grub from rescue media. dd the stage1 file to your mbr.
Watch your typing very carefully, a single typo can wipe your drive.
The stage 1 should be in /boot somewhere.
On Sat, 2009-04-11 at 12:41 -0500, Dennis Devine, San Antonio wrote:
> I ran the upgrade to RedHat 10 on my RedHat 9 install
> and now it won't boot up. It just goes into an infinite loop
> of displaying GRUB GRUB GRUB across the entire screen.
>
>
> Any ideas what the problem could be and if it is correctable?
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Eben King <eben01@verizon.net> wrote:
> I got a 312 GiB (marketed as "320 GB") SATA drive and a USB
> case. My aim is to use it as a bootable backup for my 78
> GiB / 80 GB internal drive, and also to hold XP. To that end,
> I partitioned it as follows:
>
> partition mount point size
> 1 / backup 15.5 GiB
> 2 swap 2.3 GiB
> 3 /usr backup 4.2 GiB
> 4 extended 276.9 GiB (eg the rest of the
> disk)
> 5 /home backup way too big ... I'll deal with that
> 6 XP 49.9 GiB
> (more unpartitioned space)
>
> So the XP installer complains there's no XP-compatible
> partition available, but it won't say what it wants. Good
> design, folks. Anyone know what it wants? I tried making it
> "bootable" and also setting the same flag for partition 6, no
> go. I deleted and recreated the partition using XP's own
> utility, no dice. Does it need to be primary? The first,
> $DEITY forbid? Can I make it like it wants it, then use
> gparted to move it to where I want it?
>
> And fdisk complains for partitions 1-4 that "Partition N does
> not end on cylinder boundary.". I guess that for each of
> those, I need to note what cylinder it ends on now, delete
> then remake it so it ends on a cylinder boundary. Unless
> there's a way to clean it up non-destructively?
>
> --
> -eben QebWenE01R@vTerYizUonI.nOetP royalty.mine.nu:81
>
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