This happened to me when I was using Ghost to copy drive images. I sort 
of assumed it was from different drive geometries or something, since it 
happened ~75% of the time. Reinstalling grub fixed it (but having to 
image 500 computers and then boot each one to a floppy was really 
annoying =)

-David

der.hans wrote:
> moin moin,
> 
> what does it mean when rather than the grub menu you get "grub grub grub
> grub grub grub" repeating forever when booting?
> 
> Is that failing stage1?
> 
> I didn't see anything in the grub manual or FAQ about this :(.
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans