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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



      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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