William W. Austin wrote:
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New problem: grub no longer boots the system. I tried again after full
power-down. Same result. Eventually after the usual HW/bios startup
messages I get a black screen, and the word GRUB appears. Then several
seconds another GRUB is added. I let this run while I ran an errand -
and it continued that way "GRUB GRUB ... etc" for over an hour.
There were _no_ error messages. I was able to reboot using the rescue
CD, and did full fsck's of all drives. Luckily I have another working
system here with a burner and I created a boot CD so that I can get the
machine to boot.
After I got the machine to boot using a boot cd, I did a grub-install,
but the results are different - I get Error 17 (which is cannot mount
selected partition).
Is that error during the grub-install, or while trying to boot ?
{As on off-side, I am using that kernel on i386/athlon and core2duo for
the last week OK}.
After grub-install do you get to the grub select/boot screen during boot ?
Do you have multiple physical drives ?
Maybe post fdisk -l, and /boot/grub/grub.conf
Which kernel is the previous kernel you had been running ?
You might like to make a grub boot floppy/cd. Then you enter commands like:
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vm {tab}
inited /in {tab}
boot
This would prove that the partition numbers are OK.
Does you /boot/grub/device.map exist and contain something like ? :
# this device map was generated by anaconda
(hd0) /dev/sda
DaveT.
