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suredeath
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 15 Aug 2006
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Location: Easterwood, N.Br., The Netherlands
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 Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 8:49 pm Post subject: Boot delay after toolchain & world rebuild [SOLVED] |
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Greatly helped by the emwrap.sh script I managed a full update of my system, both toolchain and world.
I ran:
| Code: | emwrap.sh -set
emwrap.sh -set (not sure if this was necessary)
emwrap.sh -we
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Every package built w/o problems, according to emwrap.sh output.
Did all the etc-updates *carefully*, no significant changes in my configs.
Then I rebooted and after the line
| Quote: | | grub stage 1.5 loading |
the pc seems to be in limbo for about 90 secs, after that grub continues to load and all's well again.
Before grub never paused visibly, booting went very smoothly & fast.
Any ideas what could cause this delay or where to look? Unfortunately my /var/log/messages hasn't got al boot details as far as I can tell. I use a standard syslog-ng configuration, haven't changed the config.
Details about my system can be found here
Thanks in advance.
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cyrillic
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Joined: 19 Feb 2003
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Location: Groton, Massachusetts USA
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| Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 12:15 am Post subject: |
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Was GRUB one of the packages that was updated ?
If so, you also need to reinstall GRUB in the MBR (manually). |
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suredeath
Tux's lil' helper
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| Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:19 am Post subject: Help, made a big booboo ? |
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O my, I am st00pid.
I reran grub-install /dev/hda BEFORE I mounted /boot. Dumb move.
I realized it before I booted again, removed the newly created stuff from the wrong /boot dir.
I retried that step with /boot mounted again, and the problems began.
It wouldn't install, complaining about stage 1 missing (it wasn't) etc.
I decided to boot from my Install CD, mounted my /, /boot, proc, dev, copied /proc/mounts to /etc/mtab, chrooted to my own (/mnt/gentoo) system and ran grub-install /dev/hda. It did not complain anylonger.
I booted: a barely legible and garbled screen, grub showing the boot options, and after selecting always the same Error 15 - File not found.
Nothing else.
I tried everything suggested in the extensive grub problems thread, and I still got all the same results. Tried manually doing it using grub instead of grub-install, no complaints, no improvement either.
I tried recreating /boot, re-emerging grub, copying config and kernels back, restoring ./ grub symlink, all to no avail.
Please tell me there is a fix. For safety I just made a backup of / on another partition, just in case. I really am at a loss what's the next sound step to take? |
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suredeath
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 15 Aug 2006
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Location: Easterwood, N.Br., The Netherlands
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| Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2006 6:32 am Post subject: Again, I am stoopid |
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It's fixed. I THOUGHT I had the symlinks fixed, while in fact only one was correct. Maybe someone else will be helped by my errors.
Really make sure there is a symlink in /boot pointing to ./:
| Code: | cd /boot
ln -s ./ boot |
and one in /boot/grub
| Code: | cd /boot/grub
ln -s ./ grub
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The one in /boot in my case turned out to be a real directory /boot/boot with just a grub device.map in it. How I got it there, don't ask me. I did.
After fixing this error everything was back to normal.
Maybe as a visual aid I should put up an img of the garbled grub screen on my website. If anyone else thinks that's a good idea, let me know, and I'll recreate my booboo and take a screenshot using my cellphone cam.
The solution handed to me by Cyrillic (thanks again!) also fixed the boot delay. Maybe it's a good thing to mention in some handbook that after a re-emerge of grub a grub-install can be required. I was wrongly assuming I didn't have to, maybe I came to that conclusion because of the fact no grub update is required after changing the grub.conf (whereas LILO requires fixing after changeing its config). This sort of seemed similar.
I learned, yet again. And still, I am such a n00b. Sigh...  |
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