[Mageia-discuss] Grub problem in install of MGA 1 and MGA 2

[Barry Jackson]

On 25/03/13 09:06, Renaud (Ron) Olgiati wrote:

> So I suspect that the install process tried to install Grub, failed, and
> happily went on its way, without warning of any problem, leaving me each time
> with an unusable system...

OK forget the bootloader for now.
Burn a Supergrub CD (it's only 4MB) and see if you can boot from that.

It's easier to diagnose stuff from inside a running system ;)

http://prdownload.berlios.de/supergrub/super_grub_disk_0.9799.iso

>
> Is that a bug ? Could it happen in MGA 3 ?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ron.
>

Who knows - probably hardware issue but see how you go ;)