jpeters
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Posted: Mar. 29 2007,18:30 |
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Got me...I guess because it's an external, so the grub menu comes up first. Some luck, though. I happened to have another working cdrom drive from my other dell, and installed it That worked, and booted up a CD. I should be in the clear, now. Thanks for the support.
EDIT: I reloaded 3.2 from the live CD on the external cdrom drive again after reinstalling 2.3 to hda1. What's happening is that it loads as a USB device through grub on hda1, and then reads the image (/dev/scd1).
Unfortunately, there's no BIOs setting for booting from a usb device. Thus, if grub is corrupted on hda1, it's all over without a working internal cdrom or floppy drive (on this laptop). That said, I'm fairly certain that I initially installed DSL from the external cdrom drive, in which case if there was a way to bypass grub, it would have loaded. (actually I was hoping someone would tell me to just push <alt-##$&&!> or something on bootup ).
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