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 1LZLA3-00066x-CY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:18:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 44C3FE02B3; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:18:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtprelay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0016.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.16]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3821DE02B3 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:18:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (ff-bigip1 [10.5.19.254]) by smtprelay03.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 71EC516FB345 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:18:32 +0000 (UTC) X-SpamScore: 1 X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,5d21b5aec4fc88a3,22135b8a83251d04,roy@wright.org,gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org,RULES_HIT:152:355:379:599:601:854:973:988:989:1187:1260:1261:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1358:1359:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1539:1593:1594:1676:1711:1730:1747:1766:1792:2393:2559:2562:2895:3027:3352:3865:3866:3867:3868:3869:3871:3872:3876:3877:5007:6114:7652:7903:8501,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:,MSBL:none,DNSBL:none Received: from [192.168.80.20] (Port22.TB3.industryinet.com [66.63.237.22]) (Authenticated sender: roy@wright.org) by omf03.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 08:18:31 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <499A72D7.3000409@wright.org> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 02:18:31 -0600 From: Roy Wright User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090126) 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub broke out of the blue References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-session-marker: 726F79407772696768742E6F7267 X-Archives-Salt: 0c1611b3-2a17-4551-b8c6-3d018a2c8e39 X-Archives-Hash: afd7f48c4268eb2bd6c1cdb25698aebc 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