Unusual boot up problems

[RoyD]

Hi All, Specs of system in signature. Once every week or so my PC fails to finish booting up. It fails just before it says Loading Grub 5. I get a cursor at the top. Keyboard or mouse do not work. All I can do is a reboot and its works very well.

How can I find out what is causing this?

[gohlip]

Assuming you're using Mageia's boot, and you have only 1 hard drive.
(also asuming you're not using usb keyboard or mouse)
Pull out all external drives and when it boots okay (if necessary, after reboot), at root terminal (root 'su -s')

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 grub-install /dev/sda
update-grub

or at Mageia Control Centre, reinstall boot (to sda).

[RoyD]

I am using Mageia boot. I do have several drives,usb mouse,usb keyboard.
Reading between the lines one of the USB devices could be causing the problem? I will try this first otherwise
I will need to attack this operation this weekend. Thank you