From: Roy Wright <roy@wright.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub broke out of the blue
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:18:31 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <499A72D7.3000409@wright.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gnddo3$doq$1@ger.gmane.org>
Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> I've no idea how it broke, but after an emerge --sync, a kernel
> (gentoo-sources) update was there. After I compiled the kernel, I did
> the usual "make modules_install && make install". I edited grub.conf
> 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.
I normally don't edit my grub.conf, instead I have entries for
vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old (make install updates these).
When I do edit grub.conf, I always run grub-install afterwards.
I don't know if this is necessary, but it's my habit...
HTH,
Roy
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-17 8:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-02-17 4:17 [gentoo-user] Grub broke out of the blue Nikos Chantziaras
2009-02-17 4:44 ` Stroller
2009-02-17 4:51 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-02-17 5:01 ` Stroller
2009-02-17 17:30 ` [gentoo-user] " Dirk Heinrichs
2009-02-17 4:49 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-02-17 8:08 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2009-02-17 17:21 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2009-02-19 8:21 ` Mick
2009-02-17 8:18 ` Roy Wright [this message]
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