GRLDR woes on startup

On booting my clean formatted re-install of Vista the machine
'freezes' with text
Booting GRLDR
Reseting (sic) the boot driver...
[snip]
get_info(81), int13/41 (81), [some more]
....
....and stays like that for 4 minutes while the drive light is glowing
without a flicker,
after which the Vista boot menu appears. 13 minutes later Vistas GUI
shows up.

The Event Logs show nothing - they only start seconds before the login
screen - and I can't find any booting log for the initial stuff.

I thought the GRLDR stuff was detritus from my Linux booting
experiments with it in earlier days when I didn't realise that it
formed part of Vista anyway!

It would seem that there is a helluva lot of activity that grldr/vista
needs to do before booting my box.

I did a chkdsk /b on all NTFS disks and chkdsk /f on the machine's
active FAT32 primary partition. All was clean and a chkntfs of all
NTFS disks said the same.

Has anyone seen this business before (and found a fix for it)?

Hil

GRLDR is ***NOT*** a part of Vista. It seems to be from your Linux
experiments - probably as a result of the MBR having been modified by Linux.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
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"Hilarious" <> wrote in message
news: ups.com...
> On booting my clean formatted re-install of Vista the machine
> 'freezes' with text
> Booting GRLDR
> Reseting (sic) the boot driver...
> [snip]
> get_info(81), int13/41 (81), [some more]
> ...
> ...and stays like that for 4 minutes while the drive light is glowing
> without a flicker,
> after which the Vista boot menu appears. 13 minutes later Vistas GUI
> shows up.
>
> The Event Logs show nothing - they only start seconds before the login
> screen - and I can't find any booting log for the initial stuff.
>
> I thought the GRLDR stuff was detritus from my Linux booting
> experiments with it in earlier days when I didn't realise that it
> formed part of Vista anyway!
>
> It would seem that there is a helluva lot of activity that grldr/vista
> needs to do before booting my box.
>
> I did a chkdsk /b on all NTFS disks and chkdsk /f on the machine's
> active FAT32 primary partition. All was clean and a chkntfs of all
> NTFS disks said the same.
>
> Has anyone seen this business before (and found a fix for it)?
>
> Hil
>

GRLDR is the Grub Loader from Linux, post to a Linux forum
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Regards
Bob J
If advise given from anyone, solves problem or not, or if solved from
another source,post back & let us know.
Then we all benefit.



"Hilarious" wrote:

> On booting my clean formatted re-install of Vista the machine
> 'freezes' with text
> Booting GRLDR
> Reseting (sic) the boot driver...
> [snip]
> get_info(81), int13/41 (81), [some more]
> ....
> ....and stays like that for 4 minutes while the drive light is glowing
> without a flicker,
> after which the Vista boot menu appears. 13 minutes later Vistas GUI
> shows up.
>
> The Event Logs show nothing - they only start seconds before the login
> screen - and I can't find any booting log for the initial stuff.
>
> I thought the GRLDR stuff was detritus from my Linux booting
> experiments with it in earlier days when I didn't realise that it
> formed part of Vista anyway!
>
> It would seem that there is a helluva lot of activity that grldr/vista
> needs to do before booting my box.
>
> I did a chkdsk /b on all NTFS disks and chkdsk /f on the machine's
> active FAT32 primary partition. All was clean and a chkntfs of all
> NTFS disks said the same.
>
> Has anyone seen this business before (and found a fix for it)?
>
> Hil
>
>

Hi, grldr is not a regular part of Vista. However it is included in pirated
Vista distributions to avoid activation. Try shopping for Vista in your
computer shop, not BitTorrent

"Hilarious" wrote:

> On booting my clean formatted re-install of Vista the machine
> 'freezes' with text
> Booting GRLDR
> Reseting (sic) the boot driver...
> [snip]
> get_info(81), int13/41 (81), [some more]
> ....
> ....and stays like that for 4 minutes while the drive light is glowing
> without a flicker,
> after which the Vista boot menu appears. 13 minutes later Vistas GUI
> shows up.
>
> The Event Logs show nothing - they only start seconds before the login
> screen - and I can't find any booting log for the initial stuff.
>
> I thought the GRLDR stuff was detritus from my Linux booting
> experiments with it in earlier days when I didn't realise that it
> formed part of Vista anyway!
>
> It would seem that there is a helluva lot of activity that grldr/vista
> needs to do before booting my box.
>
> I did a chkdsk /b on all NTFS disks and chkdsk /f on the machine's
> active FAT32 primary partition. All was clean and a chkntfs of all
> NTFS disks said the same.
>
> Has anyone seen this business before (and found a fix for it)?
>
> Hil
>
>

I know that the topic is old, but if anyone else is reading this topic
they may want to read the following.

As previously stated GRLDR is a Linux thingy. And some pirated releases
of Vista has this. But some mobos(mainly ASUS I think) include a small
and basic linux to be used when no OS is installed.

When I encountered this issue, the problem was that a SATA power cable
had slipped out of the socket. Just enough to disturb the Vista loader.
The disk was still detected by the BIOS but it wouldn´t load any of my
OS. So this should be the first thing to look for.

BTW My OS´s is legit if anyone was wondering.


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Hammer79

I hope the new eye patch, wooden leg, parrot on your shoulder and hook are
comming along well



"Hammer79" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> I know that the topic is old, but if anyone else is reading this topic
> they may want to read the following.
>
> As previously stated GRLDR is a Linux thingy. And some pirated releases
> of Vista has this. But some mobos(mainly ASUS I think) include a small
> and basic linux to be used when no OS is installed.
>
> When I encountered this issue, the problem was that a SATA power cable
> had slipped out of the socket. Just enough to disturb the Vista loader.
> The disk was still detected by the BIOS but it wouldn´t load any of my
> OS. So this should be the first thing to look for.
>
> BTW My OS´s is legit if anyone was wondering.
>
>
> --
> Hammer79

On the Bridge;617394 Wrote:
> I hope the new eye patch, wooden leg, parrot on your shoulder and hoo
> ar
> comming along wel

How's your reading skill coming along? Did you ever get past 1:s
grade? What part of LEGIT is so hard to understand

--
Hammer79

>What part of LEGIT is so hard to understand?

Oh I understood your lie, dont worry.
Pirates dont tell the truth often...

Your secret is safe with me.. dont worry.. ops I forgot we are on Usenet..
ahww well....

Shiver me timbers...!


"Hammer79" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> On the Bridge;617394 Wrote:
>> I hope the new eye patch, wooden leg, parrot on your shoulder and hook
>> are
>> comming along well
>
> How's your reading skill coming along? Did you ever get past 1:st
> grade? What part of LEGIT is so hard to understand?
>
>
> --
> Hammer79

Since this is the way that you treat new members, that are trying to
help others, I will no longer be a part of this forum. FU


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This is not a forum lady.. its a newsgroup.. newsgroups contain all types of
people.

You are just accessing the newsgroup from a forum that is not really how you
should do it

you can use the Microsoft community site that reflects this newsgroup
or use a newsgroup reader to access it directly

I hope this information enlightens your preconceived notion, Im just teasing
ya...

"Hammer79" <> wrote in message
news:...
>
> Since this is the way that you treat new members, that are trying to
> help others, I will no longer be a part of this forum. FU
>
>
> --
>