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mbobak
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 24 Feb 2003
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Location: Ann Arbor, MI
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 Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 1:38 am Post subject: grub fails to find configuration..... |
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Hi,
My system has been humming along for months now.
I'm running grub-0.94-r1 and kernel-2.6.1-gentoo.
Everything was fine, I even recently did an emerge -Uu world
and worked through all that, including an OpenOffice upgrade.
Anyhow, today I got home from work and I was surfing the
web, and my system locked up. ctrl-alt-del failed, alt-sysreq-(e,i,s,u,b) also failed. So, I hit power. When my
system booted up, I got:
So, it took some digging, booting a rescue CD, etc, and I
ended up executing the following command in grub:
| Code: | | configfile (hd0,0)/boot/grub/grub.conf |
That worked, and I was able to boot my system. So, I figured
my grub installation got blown off the MBR? So, I came here,
read the install guide with regard to installing grub, and it
said to do:
| Code: | root(hd0,0)
setup (hd0) |
So, that's what I did. It seemed to work, no errors. I reboot,
and I get:
again!
My system is fine, except that grub can't seem to remember
where to read the config file from.
Any ideas, anyone?
-Mark
I wasn't sure where this belonged. It's not really an install
issue, since my system ahs been fully installed and working
for months. One could argue that it's a kernel problem
cause the kernel won't load. But the problem seems to be
with grub....ah well, moderators, move if you think necessary. |
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Kirigoe
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mbobak
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Joined: 24 Feb 2003
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Location: Ann Arbor, MI
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| Posted: Fri May 14, 2004 6:08 pm Post subject: Thanks! |
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Thanks man! That sure sounds like the problem. I'm at work now,
but I'll try it out as soon as I get home! |
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mbobak
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 24 Feb 2003
Posts: 106
Location: Ann Arbor, MI
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| Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 5:21 am Post subject: Bad news.... |
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Well, that wasn't the problem. The symlink of menu.lst pointing
to grub.conf is just fine . I did this:
| Code: | bash-2.05b$ ls -l /boot/grub/menu.lst
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Apr 6 2003 /boot/grub/menu.lst -> /boot/grub/grub.conf
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and that looked fine. To validate that it was, I did:
| Code: | | vi /boot/grub/menu.lst |
and it put me in vi editing the /boot/grub/grub.conf file,
so the link is fine.
Anyone else have any ideas?
Thanks,
-Mark |
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Veteran
Joined: 12 Apr 2003
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Location: Coimbra, Portugal
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| Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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Are you using any SATA disk? Could you give more specific info about your hardware.
Tó
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mbobak
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Joined: 24 Feb 2003
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Location: Ann Arbor, MI
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| Posted: Sat May 15, 2004 8:16 pm Post subject: No SATA |
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This is an older system:
ASUS P2B-DS motherboard
Dual P-II 450MHz CPUs
768MB RAM
Three Seagate Cheetah SCSI drives, 2x18GB, 1X9GB
SCSI CD-R, 4x Write
SCSI Plextor DVD-ROM
It's 100% SCSI, no ATA or IDE devices of any kind.
Does that help? As I mentioned before, gentoo has been fine
on this hardware for months.
Thanks,
-Mark |
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