Re: GRUB not loading kernel image



On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 03:23:52PM +0200, Kim Christensen wrote:
Hey list,

I came across a really pesky problem when installing Debian on one of
our servers today. An installation like any other, with our standard
setup:

[...]

/dev/sda3 reiserfs (the rest)

The installation went fine. I installed GRUB as a boot loader, and
continued to reboot the server. However, after the GRUB loading screen
nothing happened.

GRUB echoes out its boot command list (like always), but hangs where it

how about the actual verbatim output from GRUB?

should load the actual kernel image. I have done a few reboots, no luck.
I also tried mounting the partitions in a rescue shell

try reinstalling GRUB from the rescue shell.

A

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