Re: [gentoo-user] Strange grub problem

[Ivan Alden <ivan.alden@gmail.com>]

Thanks its fixed. I guess it was coincidence I lost power at the same
time to this issue. I appreciate the help.

Ivan

On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 01:24 -0500, Dale wrote:
> Ivan Alden wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > My laptop ran out of battery and shut off while I was using it and it
> > seems to have done some damage to the bootloader. When I reboot I can't
> > see the grub splashscreen any more but if I press enter I does boot into
> > my kernel. As the computer is booting the output looks all messed up
> > (but you can make that its initializing devices) until it reaches around
> > the networking devices which then corrects and works properly.
> >
> > I've tried reconfiguring grub with
> > root (hd0,0)
> > setup (hd0)
> >
> > Does anybody have any suggestions of how to fix this?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >   
> 
> This was discussed over the past day or so.  If I recall correctly the 
> splash image has been moved by some package update.  Just check that 
> everything your grub boot line points to is actually there.
> 
> If you need more info, I can search through my old emails and find the 
> fixes for you.
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-)  :-) 
>