Bug#344121: grub: no troubleshooting info for failed stage 1 loading

[Marc Haber]

Package: grub
Version: 0.97-1
Severity: normal

Hi,

the grub manual's troubleshooting section starts with "Errors reported
by stage 1". However, there is a big deal of things that can go wrong
before stage 1 was loaded. This is completely ignored by the manual.

For example, what to do when booting stops _before_ GRUB is displayed?
And what to do when booting stops after "GRUB", but before stage 1?

Greetings
Marc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14.4-zgsrv
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages grub depends on:
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-8.1  GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                   5.5-1      Shared libraries for terminal hand

grub recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information