My guess is that the first stage of Grub (in the MBR) is failing to find the second stage (in the Linux boot partition). Any number of reasons why that might happen. The 1st stage uses BIOS calls to find the 2nd stage, so the 2nd has to be in the first 1024 cylinders, etc. <p></p><i></i>

I use Grub now, although I still have LILO on my office server. Grub can be used to create a boot floppy and you can debug that before letting it touch your MBR. (I'm paranoid that way. <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :D --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/happy.gif ALT=":D"><!--...

I'm mostly around the wafer positioning stuff. It's accurate to sub-nanometer levels. Moving stuff like this, moving many inches in a few seconds and then stopping on the nanometer, is like landing the space shuttle and stopping literally on a dime. <p></p><i></i>

Just saw this on /. :<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://nwn.bioware.com/downloads/linuxclient.html">nwn.bioware.com/downloads...lient.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>As a Tribes 2 addict who occasionally drops back to Battlezone and TFC, what the hell is NWN? Sho...

Hey, another controls guy! I'm not really one myself, but I work with a few here:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.newport.com/semi/">www.newport.com/semi/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>My code is more about communications (serial/USB/network/backplane) and I a...

The ultimate BB gun:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.pipersprecisionproducts.com/">www.pipersprecisionproducts.com/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>An alternative to spud guns:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.worldchampionshippunkinch...

Learning how to program is useful no matter what discipline you find yourself in. It's like typing or basic math: It's another tool in the toolbox. If nothing else, knowing basic programming lets you complain to the guys who are paid to do it as if you knew what you were talking about. <!--EZCODE EM...

"President assassinated by home-made weapon inspired by video game. Games and machine shops to be outlawed! Film at 11."<br><br>(Scratch is a proud owner of several firearms, and is utterly disgusted by the nitwits who think outlawing or registering them actually protects anybody, instead ...

4 hours?! That's enough to learn the syntax. It takes a lot longer to know how to be effective and all the idioms. Once you learn the basics, subscribe to C/C++ Users Journal (AKA "CUJ") and C++ Report. The latter is more meaty but more advanced, and covers OOP and "Design Patterns&qu...

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Load up Netscape, Mozilla, or Eudora and delete all shortcuts to OE. Unless you're a computer expert, you're just a big target when using OE. (You're still a target with the others, but you're a much <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><i> smaller</i><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> target!) <p></p><i></i>

Basic and C might be equally good for games, depending on how used. I'd use C/C++ for low-level stuff that needed to be really fast, but Basic would be fine for high-level stuff that made overall decisions and then relegated performance-critical stuff (like rendering) to the C-based "engine&quo...