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 1LZHzI-0003IL-6f for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:55:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D3C54E0290; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:55:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF214E0290 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:55:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53E47B529D for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:55:14 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.424 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.424 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.175, 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 eDdWRb-K-kNr for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:55:08 +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 95BA864F15 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:55:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LZHz5-0001Qv-4a for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:55:03 +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 04:55:03 +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 04:55:03 +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 06:51:51 +0200 Organization: Lucas Barks Message-ID: References: <519795F9-54B4-414E-9DBD-F27681F161C9@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> 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=ISO-8859-1; 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: <519795F9-54B4-414E-9DBD-F27681F161C9@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: d34fd173-b273-41a2-9bc4-39efbbbdd455 X-Archives-Hash: b4974201988f45a800159c3bf2175473 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.