GRUB fails -- dead in water -- HELP

[Lauri]

> geoff at hughes.net wrote:
> 
>> Boot-up stops with "GRUB" (no other info) where the menu should be.
>>
>> Booted Knoppix.  All files are where they should be.  / and /boot are
>> readable.
>>
>> Did an update from the FC5 DVD. No files were updated.
>>
>> Re-loaded FC5.  Same problem.
>>
>> Any ideas would be appreciated.
> 
> Do you mean you get the grub> prompt?
> 
> If so you could try running grub interactively - something like:
> 
> grub> root (hd0,1) [if /boot is on /dev/hda2]
> grub> kernel /vmlinuz... ro root=...
> grub> initrd /initrd...
> grub> boot
> 
> I'd guess you might have an error in /boot/grub/grub.conf ?
> 

I had the same problem some time ago, reinstalling grub worked:

grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)

Grub starts counting disks and paritions from 0, while Linux does from 1.

Lauri