On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 08:26 -0500, John Nall wrote:
> However, the new disk will not boot up.  It just sits there, displaying 
> the single word: "GRUB."   (This is a dual-boot disk, with both Windows 
> XP and Linux (FC4) on it, and of course Grub is the boot loader).  So 
> Acronis didn't do it for me.  :-(
> 
> This is not a gripe (although it may sound like it :-)  Just reporting 
> that Acronis didn't do the trick.  My guess would be that it has to do 
> with the errors reading the old disk. 

This is a common problem, the clone went fine.

The problem (and Ghost does the same thing) is that while the clone
happens the boot manager isn't copied over correctly. This results in
the "GRUB" you see.

Best solution? Boot from the disk 1 of the Linux distro you have in
rescue mode and simply restore your boot loader.

For grub it's something like this, at the command line:

grub
root (hd0, 0)
setup (hd0)
quit
exit

This will restore your boot loader and restart the system.

Note the root and setup lines might differ (I'm going from memory) but
grub has a rudimentary help system that should guide you without
problems.

TTYL

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