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2010-12-21, 17:09
(This post was last modified: 2010-12-21, 17:11 by mrfunnyguyky.)
I had a perfectly working 9.11 live install to hard drive that i had been running for about a year and decided to do a fresh install of xbmc live 10. The install went smooth, however, I can only load xbmc from the live cd with the option launch OS from hard drive. It doesnt even pull up the xbmc screen. It just shows the blinking underscore. I cant even load grub if I hold the shift key. I have my drive flagged as bootable. For my hardware I have a zotac ion board. My main drive that xbmc is installed to is sdb and my storage drive for all of my files is sda. My sda drive is ntfs also and xbmc isn't seeing it. It ran fine on 9.11 though so I'm not sure what the problem is. I LOVE xbmc and I'm already missing it. Any help would very much be appreciated.
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It sounds like you're missing a bootloader. try using grub-install or grub-update.
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Will it Boot from cd? If not then try burning a new cd. You may have had a spec of dust on the cd.
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Slightly different approach, same issue with a Zotac IONITX-A-U:
- Tried installing from flash to HD, flash to flash, and CD to flash. I get cursor-only after I select "Install XBMC LIve"
- Installed from CD to flash on another PC, installed flawlessly and boots fine on that PC. Bootloader launches fine on the Zotac, but I get a blank screen when it tried to launch XBMC.
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