[olug] grub doesn't show up

[ktb]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 10:02:08AM -0500, Ryan O'Rourke wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-04-11 at 09:55, Andrew Holm-Hansen wrote:
> > Ryan O'Rourke wrote:
> > >I just installed RH 8.0 but when I try to boot the machine I just get
> > >the word "GRUB" with a flashing cursor in the upper left-hand corner of
> > >my screen where the Grub splash screen and options should be. 
> 
> > Maybe try grubconf? 
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/grubconf/
> 
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion! 
> Grubconf didn't actually work, but it gave me a clue to pursue. When
> trying to run grubconf I was getting the error message "Could not find
> splash image device, given (hd1,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz" so I began to

Did you check to see if there was actually a file /grub/splash.xpm.gz?
If there isn't comment out the line -

splashimage=(hd2,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

and see if grub will work for you then.
kent

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