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 1LZHuT-0002Yj-6n for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:50:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 358F5E027E; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:50:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07ED9E027E for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:50:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86CA1B52A0 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:50:14 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.422 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.422 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.177, 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 OzhqxWkC2LKu for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:50:08 +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 C7CFEB52A1 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:50:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LZHuG-0001Gp-5E for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:50:04 +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 04:50:04 +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 04:50:04 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Nikos Chantziaras Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub broke out of the blue Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:49:56 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: 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: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090215) In-Reply-To: Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: b4f07c04-e4bc-417b-a0dd-6c249bb3c085 X-Archives-Hash: b7d13661e820da5600ea3d096764af4a 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? /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 (/). Back. Grub was booting inside a VM under XP even though it refused to boot for "real". So I booted in a VM and reinstalled Grub from there. I'm left to wonder now how copying a new kernel into /boot with "make install" can possibly make Grub go fubar...