[gentoo-user] Instant reboot at grub stage 1.5

[gentoo-user] Instant reboot at grub stage 1.5

[fire-eyes]

Hello, I'm stumped here, so i'm open for suggestions.

My system refuses to boot fully. What happens is it powers on, and i see 
a very quick flash that says something along the lines of "Loading Grub 
Stage 1.5", and then a reboot. This just continues in a loop.

In the past few days, I was upgrading glibc to 2.4 and also to gcc 
4.1.1. I was using the GCC upgrade guide. Everything went well until it 
was time to reboot. I did do an emerge -e world.

I remerged grub, and used the grub console to reinstall. I have checked 
my grub.conf, it looks fine. It also does not have any trailing garbage 
(suggestion from others).

I also recompiled and reinstalled my kernel, making sure it was compiled 
with gcc 4.1.1.

Many times i got back in via chroot, and tried to reinstall grub, but to 
no avail. It sees the disks, it sees the partitions, it sees the 
filesystems.

So I am not sure what to do next. I flung about 4 hours of time at this 
with no change.

Any ideas?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Instant reboot at grub stage 1.5

[Mick]

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On Friday 22 September 2006 03:21, fire-eyes wrote:
> Hello, I'm stumped here, so i'm open for suggestions.
>
> My system refuses to boot fully. What happens is it powers on, and i see
> a very quick flash that says something along the lines of "Loading Grub
> Stage 1.5", and then a reboot. This just continues in a loop.
>
> In the past few days, I was upgrading glibc to 2.4 and also to gcc
> 4.1.1. I was using the GCC upgrade guide. Everything went well until it
> was time to reboot. I did do an emerge -e world.
>
> I remerged grub, and used the grub console to reinstall. I have checked
> my grub.conf, it looks fine. It also does not have any trailing garbage
> (suggestion from others).
>
> I also recompiled and reinstalled my kernel, making sure it was compiled
> with gcc 4.1.1.
>
> Many times i got back in via chroot, and tried to reinstall grub, but to
> no avail. It sees the disks, it sees the partitions, it sees the
> filesystems.
>
> So I am not sure what to do next. I flung about 4 hours of time at this
> with no change.
>
> Any ideas?

Does this help?

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/grub-error-guide.xml

Alternatively, please post the usual info:  fdisk -l, grub.conf, df -h and 
we'll take it from there.
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Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Instant reboot at grub stage 1.5

[Richard Fish]

On 9/21/06, fire-eyes <sgtphou@fire-eyes.org> wrote:
> Any ideas?

Can you post the output of:

carcharias rjf # cat << EOF | grub --batch
> root (hd0,0)
> setup (hd0)
> EOF

-Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] Instant reboot at grub stage 1.5

[fire-eyes]

Richard Fish wrote:
> On 9/21/06, fire-eyes <sgtphou@fire-eyes.org> wrote:
>> Any ideas?
> 
> Can you post the output of:
> 
> carcharias rjf # cat << EOF | grub --batch
>> root (hd0,0)
>> setup (hd0)
>> EOF
> 
> -Richard


Actually I have since resolved the problem... Sadly not with grub. After 
about 12 hours I just tried lilo, and it worked right away. I prefer 
grub but... :(

Here is the info I had gathered, if you spot anything suspicious let me 
know, i would rather use grub...



http://fire-eyes.org/temp/bootproblems.html

Thanks for your replies :)
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