No Grub bootloader. Help!

[intelamd]

I installed Mint 13 Cinnamon today. I already have Windows XP installed. Now the problem is that the grub bootloader does not appear. Instead when I start the PC I see "Frequency out of range - 90 K / 59 HZ" on the monitor and after a while Mint loads. I posted this problem on the Mint forums too but no solution yet. Since Mint is basically Ubuntu and Ubuntu has a very vibrant and cooperative community I am posting my problem here in the hope that some one would help me. So kindly help me.

[mamamia88]

I installed Mint 13 Cinnamon today. I already have Windows XP installed. Now the problem is that the grub bootloader does not appear. Instead when I start the PC I see "Frequency out of range - 90 K / 59 HZ" on the monitor and after a while Mint loads. I posted this problem on the Mint forums too but no solution yet. Since Mint is basically Ubuntu and Ubuntu has a very vibrant and cooperative community I am posting my problem here in the hope that some one would help me. So kindly help me.

weird maybe try and reinstall grub? maybe take a look at something called super grub disk http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/245

[cipherboy_loc]

Could you run the boot info script in my signature and post the results in code tags?

Edit: Disregard my post, Bucky Ball understood the problem better than I did.

Thanks,
Cipherboy

[Bucky Ball]

If you're talking about the menu at the beginning then hit Shift after the BIOS screen at boot to get a menu.

As for the other issue, are you using any third party graphics drivers or using the open-source default? Looks like it's having problems with your monitor which accounts for the delay.

[intelamd]

If you're talking about the menu at the beginning then hit Shift after the BIOS screen at boot to get a menu.

As for the other issue, are you using any third party graphics drivers or using the open-source default? Looks like it's having problems with your monitor which accounts for the delay.

hi Bucky Ball,


I checked my system for proprietory drivers and it says ''no proprietory drivers are in use" so I think the system is using open source drivers. I also hit shift after the BIOS screen and I just saw a glimpse of "Grub loading" but then it disappeared and it logged into Linux Mint.

[Bucky Ball]

Have you done an update since install? If not do that and check Additional Drivers again. Which release are you using? It used to be 'Esc' key for the menu but then it changed to 'Shift'. Strange that not doing anything. That should be giving you the option to boot to Win or Ubuntu or Mint or whatever.

[intelamd]

Have you done an update since install? If not do that and check Additional Drivers again. Which release are you using? It used to be 'Esc' key for the menu but then it changed to 'Shift'. Strange that not doing anything. That should be giving you the option to boot to Win or Ubuntu or Mint or whatever.

I am using Linux Mint Maya 13 Cinnamon. I have completely updated the system. I am very upset because of this no grub boot selector. I can't log in to Windows because of that and I have important data there.

[Bucky Ball]

Well, you should be able to access that data without to much of an issue if that's any consolation. The button to press for the menu is shift in the newer versions of Ubuntu so not sure why it's not the same with Mint. You have the BIOS set to boot from the hard drive that grub is installed on? It should have been installed on sda.

[cipherboy_loc]

Check here maybe for information on changing the grub config. It should tell you how to set the menu to display every boot:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Gr...ing%20GRUB%202

[Bucky Ball]

... how to set the menu to display every boot...

That's pretty straight forward.

Open a terminal.
Paste this in:

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

Make these lines look like this:

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10

Hit Control+x then 'y' to save and exit. Reboot. You should get the menu for ten seconds (indefinitely if you then hit any key).

It might be a good idea to make a backup before you begin in case you make any mistakes:

sudo cp /etc/default/grub /etc/default/grub.bak

Grub Customizer is the non-terminal way of doing this but not sure if there is an ISO or if you can install it to a Live boot (you can with Boot Repair but that won't help here ... yet).