From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LZL0q-0005TP-FK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:09:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F2B2BE029D; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:09:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7BD3E02A0 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:09:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from krikkit (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BF899470F6F for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:09:01 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:08:54 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub broke out of the blue Message-ID: <20090217080854.7fdb1f40@krikkit> In-Reply-To: References: Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0cvs66 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/SQp+hWS/mht=cpZ_EcFLUNC"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: f036f0cc-683c-4ccc-9eba-eb2d2be250e4 X-Archives-Hash: 2d6a60c2b1f5048772d5e022270a323b --Sig_/SQp+hWS/mht=cpZ_EcFLUNC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:17:07 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > I've no idea how it broke, but after an emerge --sync, a kernel=20 > (gentoo-sources) update was there. After I compiled the kernel, I did=20 > the usual "make modules_install && make install". I edited grub.conf=20 > only to the point of changing the booted kernel to the > new one (just a matter of changing -r1 to -r2 at the end of the kernel > filename). I reboot, Grub stops working. It just displays "GRUB" and > hangs there. Could you have inadvertently made more of a change to grub.conf than that? Grub is notoriously fragile when it comes to its config file? Why did you edit it in the first place? As you used make install,you will have symlinks from vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old to the new and previous kernels. Use these in GRUB and there's no need to edit anything. --=20 Neil Bothwick File Not Found - Loading something that looks similar --Sig_/SQp+hWS/mht=cpZ_EcFLUNC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmacJsACgkQum4al0N1GQPJ1gCfTSCSORcuWPbZXc7o7Za6UU2I LKMAn1F28nAwzctITXH4q9aBTno/i9Lf =EfKl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/SQp+hWS/mht=cpZ_EcFLUNC--