[Techtalk] what the heck does this mean!!

[Carla Schroder]

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Scenario:

I installed a new motherboard. There are two SATA drives. I have 64 Studio on 
sda1. The machine starts fine, I can get into the BIOS menu, and it 
recognizes all the drives and the correct memory. So far so good.

It goes to the GRUB menu, and then the screen in the photo appears.

Kubuntu is on sdb1 and boots normally from the same GRUB menu. I used Kubuntu 
to check the logs on sda1 and they don't show a thing-- they're empty.

/boot/grub/menu.lst is on sda1.

I checked all the menu.lst settings and they are correct-- correct initrd, 
vmlinuz, everything. The partition seems to be healthy, the boot menu is 
being read and i had no trouble mounting and reading it in Kubuntu. 

What the heck is all this and what can I do about it? Is there some secret 
message in all that gobbledegook to tell me how to fix this?

I have only one 64 Studio kernel so I can't check if it's some kernel 
weirdness. Only the mobo and the RAM are new.

thanks,
Carla
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