Issues with GRUB on 2010.08.20

[fossks]

Hi,

I had some major problems with the GRUB installation during an HD install this past weekend. After the complete install went through and a reboot, I was faced with GRUB freezing at the "loading grub" comment. After rebooting into the CD, I reinstalled GRUB with "grub-install --root-directory=/media/hd /dev/sda". Upon another reboot, I was successful in getting in on the HD installed system.

However, after the system was updated, I was faced with a different GRUB problem with an infinite "loading grub" loop. Again, I rebooted into the CD and repeated to reinstalled GRUB. I then commented out the graphic menu entry in the GRUB/menu.lst file and upon reboot it works again.

To simplify things, I installed LILO and then setup the system to boot using LILO.

Why would there be so many problems with GRUB?

[KDulcimer]

(10-04-2010 05:32 PM)fossks Wrote:  Why would there be so many problems with GRUB?

It might it be the BIOS. Does it have some sort of virus-protection built in? Beyond that, I'm not really sure what could be the issue.