From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OAJHx-0005wY-7J for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 07 May 2010 08:52:05 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DB0B3E061F; Fri, 7 May 2010 08:51:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3B99E061F for ; Fri, 7 May 2010 08:51:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F1B7DEC84 for ; Fri, 7 May 2010 09:51:13 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id q-f02ircWDEW for ; Fri, 7 May 2010 09:51:13 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D18BDEBE5 for ; Fri, 7 May 2010 09:51:13 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] x86 boot failure Date: Fri, 7 May 2010 09:51:12 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.3 (Linux/2.6.33-gentoo-r2; KDE/4.4.3; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: 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: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201005070951.12083.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: 2f60d051-32dd-49c7-9d90-7b21b917c807 X-Archives-Hash: 2bb431a09b39c838cb704e5b42c11b26 On Thursday 06 May 2010 12:52:55 Mick wrote: > When I get problems like this I usually run grub in a terminal and > then use autocompletion to find out what grub sees: > > root (hd <--tab > > it will list all partitions and hopefully help you find your boot > partition. > > Then search for the kernel image: kernel /boot/ <--tab > > If you have chosen the correct grub root partition you should find > your kernel image in there. The problem with that is that grub in a running system may detect the disks in a different order from the booting grub. Better would be to interrupt the boot with e or (as Neil suggested) c. Either will allow you to use the Tab key to find disks, partitions and images. -- Rgds Peter.