* [gentoo-user] Re: Rebooted and now I only see the word GRUB [FIXED]
@ 2012-06-29 5:14 Paul Hartman
2012-06-30 1:19 ` walt
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From: Paul Hartman @ 2012-06-29 5:14 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Gentoo User
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Tonight I rebooted and only see the text "GRUB" followed by a blinking
> cursor, never the grub menu. I'm using grub legacy and ~amd64. Of
> course my recovery options depend on GRUB actually working, so I'm
> downloading the latest gentoo minimal CD for now so I can hopefully
> get in and see what's going wrong and fix it, or reinstall grub at
> least.
>
> Anyone run into this problem or have any idea what's causing it? I'm
> not sure if GRUB 0.xx was updated recently, I don't remember seeing it
> emerged...
After booting from gentoo minimal livecd, chrooting into my hard
drive, re-emerging grub:0 (just in case it has to be built against my
latest kernel) and then running grub and doing:
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
it booted normally again. I guess I failed to reinstall grub like this
after a portage update at some point... logs show I last instlaled it
in May, and have rebooted since then without problem, maybe it was
something else. Weird. :)
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* [gentoo-user] Re: Rebooted and now I only see the word GRUB [FIXED]
2012-06-29 5:14 [gentoo-user] Re: Rebooted and now I only see the word GRUB [FIXED] Paul Hartman
@ 2012-06-30 1:19 ` walt
2012-06-30 1:31 ` walt
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: walt @ 2012-06-30 1:19 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 06/28/2012 10:14 PM, Paul Hartman wrote:
> After booting from gentoo minimal livecd, chrooting into my hard
> drive, re-emerging grub:0 (just in case it has to be built against my
> latest kernel) and then running grub and doing:
>
> root (hd0,0)
> setup (hd0)
>
> it booted normally again. I guess I failed to reinstall grub like this
> after a portage update at some point... logs show I last instlaled it
> in May, and have rebooted since then without problem, maybe it was
> something else. Weird. :)
Just for future reference, the grub command line mode will let you
change all kinds of things that will make it possible for you to
boot from such a situation with very little effort.
When you see the empty grub menu, hit tab to see the list of commands.
Same for grub2, but the syntax is slightly different.
Just as one example, type 'root' at the grub CLI prompt.
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* [gentoo-user] Re: Rebooted and now I only see the word GRUB [FIXED]
2012-06-30 1:19 ` walt
@ 2012-06-30 1:31 ` walt
2012-06-30 5:30 ` Paul Hartman
0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: walt @ 2012-06-30 1:31 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On 06/29/2012 06:19 PM, walt wrote:
> Just for future reference
Oops, never mind. I misread your original post :(
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* Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rebooted and now I only see the word GRUB [FIXED]
2012-06-30 1:31 ` walt
@ 2012-06-30 5:30 ` Paul Hartman
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From: Paul Hartman @ 2012-06-30 5:30 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 8:31 PM, walt <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 06/29/2012 06:19 PM, walt wrote:
>> Just for future reference
>
> Oops, never mind. I misread your original post :(
It's okay, I think at some point I must have updated something grub
depends on, so it wasn't able to load the stages. My grub is built
with -static USE flag, maybe I should change that!
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