Re: grub failure

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 01:31:42PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote:
Dual boot, debian etch i386, filesystem reiserfs 3.6, today did not start:

---Grub loading, please wait...
Error 21

means a disk could not be accessed, or found, or was not properly
reported by the bios. from info grub

21 : Selected disk does not exist
This error is returned if the device part of a device- or full
file name refers to a disk or BIOS device that is not present or
not recognized by the BIOS in the system.




Power switched off and given again:
started perfectly.

investigate your hard disk and/or bios. something didn't report
properly on booting. could be just a transient error, but more likely
the very beginnings of a hardware problem with a hard-drick controller
or a disk itself.



Any guess

that's my guess.

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