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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user]  Re: Grub broke out of the blue
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:51:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <gndfp6$h8s$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <519795F9-54B4-414E-9DBD-F27681F161C9@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>

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.




  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-17  4:55 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   ` Nikos Chantziaras [this message]
2009-02-17  5:01     ` [gentoo-user] " 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 ` [gentoo-user] " Roy Wright

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