Vista - 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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"Hilarious" <pofadda@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1187182315.400861.255680@57g2000hsv.googlegroups.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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Bob J
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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:

*poof*

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



"Hammer79" <Hammer79.34yr46@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
news:Hammer79.34yr46@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net...

*poof*

>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" <Hammer79.34zmd2@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
news:Hammer79.34zmd2@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net...

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" <Guest.34zp51@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
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"Hammer79" <Guest.34zp51@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net> wrote in message
news:Guest.34zp51@xxxxxx-mx.forums.net...Hammer 79,

The microsoft.public.windows.vista.general newsgroup is not for the
thin-skinned. You should continue reading these threads because you can
learn many things. We have our usual group of idiots and malcontents (and I
am certainly NOT stating that "On the Bridge" is one of them), but there are
also many knowledgeable people here who can assist you with any problems you
have.
On the Bridge told you that he was merely teasing you. He was also
giving you some good advice when he recommended that you use a newsreader to
access the various newsgroups. I recently started using a newsreader for the
first time after using computers for 30 years because I grew tired of the
limitations of forum based discussions. I never had a need for a newsreader
before I started participating in newsgroups. I don't know how I lived
without a newsreader now that I am using one (still learning).

C.B.


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