booting problem: EDD

[dansar99]

Sometimes I can not boot into PCLinuxOS because after the boot selection screen, instead of booting up linux I get a black screen with a message " Probing EDD ( edd=off)" and a flashing line.  I have to power off and retry a few times before it boots.  That never happens when I boot into XP.  Dan

[gseaman]

Does this happen before or after the grub menu (this is the linux loader menu)? If it is before, I would re-install grub and see if that helps.

Galen

[dansar99]

No,it happens after the linux bootloader but not all the time. Today it took 3 or 4 tries to boot into linux.   Dan

[Old-Polack]

No,it happens after the linux bootloader but not all the time. Today it took 3 or 4 tries to boot into linux.   Dan

In your /boot/grub/menu.lst, as root, just add edd=off to each Linux boot stanza.

[dansar99]

[root@localhost danny]# /boot/grub/menu.lst
bash: /boot/grub/menu.lst: Permission denied
[root@localhost danny]#

[djohnston]

dansar99,

As user root, use a text editor to edit the file.

[Old-Polack]

[root@localhost danny]# /boot/grub/menu.lst
bash: /boot/grub/menu.lst: Permission denied
[root@localhost danny]#

[root@localhost danny]# kwrite /boot/grub/menu.lst

[dansar99]

I guess I messed that up..LOL..now I can't boot into linux at all. Black screen again with edd= off at the end of other stuff.  Dan

[Old-Polack]

I guess I messed that up..LOL..now I can't boot into linux at all. Black screen again with edd= off at the end of other stuff.  Dan

How about removing the space after the edd=?

[dansar99]

that was a typo

[dansar99]

I'll have to to reinstall..cant get into linux

[Old-Polack]

I'll have to to reinstall..cant get into linux

Unless you did something else, just edit /boot/grub/menu.lst to remove the edd=off, if that's causing an additional problem. Then again, you may need additional firmware for your machine. It's hard to tell, with the lack of real information provided.

You might want to start here, to understand your problem;

http://www.google.com/search?q=Probing+EDD&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

[dansar99]

LOL..riiiight..like I could understand all that stuff in that thread.  Thank you for trying to help. I'll just re-install and see if that works.  Dan

[scoundrel]

I'll have to to reinstall..cant get into linux

might want to boot into the live cd and redo mbr before doing something drastic as reinstalling ........you'll find it under PC menu--system--configuration-boot and init--Redo MBR

[dansar99]

Thanks..I did that and got the original black screen with the " Probing EDD (edd=off to disable)" as the last line. I powered off and rebooted into linux safe mode and copied the MBR

timeout 10
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
gfxmenu (hd0,4)/boot/gfxmenu
default 0

title linux
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux root=UUID=4a0fe61b-6fc3-4b95-902e-4ea987ab3a94 acpi=on resume=UUID=6de14861-860e-4984-a856-854fc493ba43 splash=silent vga=788
initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img

title linux-nonfb
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb root=UUID=4a0fe61b-6fc3-4b95-902e-4ea987ab3a94 acpi=on resume=UUID=6de14861-860e-4984-a856-854fc493ba43 splash=silent
initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img

title failsafe
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=UUID=4a0fe61b-6fc3-4b95-902e-4ea987ab3a94 failsafe acpi=on
initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd.img


title windows
root (hd0,1)

maybe this additional info will help.  Dan