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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  Re: Grub broke out of the blue
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 05:01:36 +0000
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On 17 Feb 2009, at 04:51, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> Stroller wrote:
>> On 17 Feb 2009, at 04:17, 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.
>>>
>>> What might have cause this?
>> $ cat /var/log/portage/elog/sys-boot:grub-0.97-r6:20090117-194927.log
>> LOG: preinst
>
> I did not update or re-install grub.  The only thing I did was  
> compile a kernel and copy the kernel image to /boot.

Sorry. The updated grub was only released in the last month or two, so  
I assumed this was the first time you had rebooted since.

Stroller.