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 1LZHOh-0007mC-QB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:17:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 03AA2E0271; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:17:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8E47E0271 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:17:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56E3D667B2 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:17:24 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.421 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.421 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.178, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id sGoFjp60SHWt for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:17:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A34BC65FAD for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:17:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LZHOU-0000Ji-Jc for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:17:14 +0000 Received: from athedsl-56659.home.otenet.gr ([87.203.198.161]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:17:14 +0000 Received: from realnc by athedsl-56659.home.otenet.gr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:17:14 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Grub broke out of the blue Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:17:07 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: 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=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: athedsl-56659.home.otenet.gr User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080421 Thunderbird/2.0.0.14 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: b9ba475d-2780-4581-a705-307aced16847 X-Archives-Hash: 4df3bcdc920f81e7f76e2e1279331f10 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? /boot is a 50MB ext3 partition with 14MB free. I had to boot from a live CD and make sda1 bootable (Windows XP) so I can get online and burn a repair CD that supports ext4 (/).