Need help booting Live CD i keep getting this Grub menu

It does support SATA
Use arrow key to go where you want  (the first menu seems to be the best)
And then hit "enter" key (of your keyboard) :-)

I get this too. No menu, just a Grub prompt. When I type a command such as 'root' or 'kernel' I get 'Error 12: Invalid device requested'. I've tried typing the entry from menu.lst manually, but get the same error. This is on a laptop too - I don't have another machine to test it on right now.

Is there some known problem with Grub finding drives on laptops? If so, is there a way around it?

I have this exact same problem, but when I hit enter it just redisplays the "Minimal Bash" message.

Why is it doing this? I've redownloaded and rechecked the CD 4 times now, and it still does not work. I tried it on both my old computer and my new computer and I get the same message. "Blah blah Minimal Bash blah blah here's a command line, have fun without a gui."

Cannot get past the scroll list, none of the options works for me, gives a diskread error, then some half readable patterned data with the words gforce driver barely readable.

This is a new Acer Aspire notebook AMD Turion 64X2 160gb Sata hard disk, Nvidia geforce go 7300 128mb.

I had already created one partition on the harddrive with fdisk.[which was a brand new drive not the original which came with the laptop].  Vista [heaven help me] is freshly installed on C partition and shrunk to 26.9gb. The other partition is empty, have just formatted it to the only option available, ntfs and still no different.

Edit, I have been able to partition during the standard install process using the Kubuntu 7.04 feisty fawn installation for amd64,  http://www.kubuntu.org/download.php

Next, to look for sound and video drivers

Alan.

Quite possibly a disk read error. Parted Magic is OK and that uses gparted.

Hi SheeEttin, thanks for your interest and help, however I have managed to partition using gparted from PartedMagic, and I have so much to do in so little time I have to move on now with my other tasks or I will get myself into deeper trouble! Cheers, Alan.

@ SheeEttin

I understand that many of us had the 'grub' prompt and the minimal shell. I didn't know about it, until yesterday evening: I had it me too, when I tried to boot the old desktop (pentium 133MHz 10-year old) from the Live CD (the last one, about 2 weeks ago).

But this was not every time I booted the computer: sometimes it didn't boot from the cd and went to the hd (with w95). I went to that grub prompt when I pressed the "pause" key during POST, and pressed the space bar after to continue to the boot process.

The configuration of this old pc is:
Pentium-S 133 MHz. RAM 64MB, CDROM drive (Toshiba, I think),
SVGA S3 (4MB ram), 3 Hard drives IDE (2GB, 3GB, 2GB),
serial mouse, keyboard (old-time DIN connector), USB pci card, Intel Etherexpress 10+ network adapter.
(actual OS: windows 95 second edition).

by the way, on my new desktop pc (core duo 6600) I hadn't that. I had another problem, that I posted here, some days ago, waiting for any ideas:
http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=687

Thanks.

GRUB is terrible to run as a boot loader on Live media. Why do you guys think Ubuntu, SUSE, Fedora, PCLinuxOS, Debian, KNOPPIX, etc..., all use syslinux?

Your computer either works with GRUB or it don't. There is no fixing it. Your better off asking these guys to use syslinux again.

When is the last time GRUB was even updated. Years?

Patrick Verner
www.partedmagic.com