Re: Catch-22 : NO JOY after all

[Seann Clark <nombrandue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Antonio Olivares wrote:
> --- On Sat, 12/27/08, Beartooth <Beartooth@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   
> > From: Beartooth <Beartooth@xxxxxxxx>
> > Subject: Re: Catch-22 : NO JOY after all
> > To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: Saturday, December 27, 2008, 2:02 PM
> > On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:50:01 -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > 	[....]
> >     
> > > Welcome to the GRUB_ Club :)
> > > That is when you install a new kernel, machine reboots
> > >       
> > and you are
> >     
> > > greeted with a GRUB__ prompt only that does nothing :(
> > >
> > > What you need to do(to make your computer function) is
> > >       
> > to boot in rescue
> >     
> > > mode and reinstall grub.  That way you get rid of your
> > >       
> > GRUB_ problem.
> >     
> > > This GRUB_ problem has bitten many of us that it is
> > >       
> > not funny anymore. 
> >     
> > > But it happens(we can't complain, it happens to
> > >       
> > anyone of us, no one is
> >     
> > > exempt), the good thing is that there's a
> > >       
> > workaround.  Try that and
> >     
> > > report back.
> > >       
> > 	Hmmm ... What means "reinstall" here? How do you
> > do it??
> >
> > 	I did "cat grub.conf" on the #2 machine,
> > switched to #1, booted 
> > rescue, chrooted /mnt/sysimage, and proceeded to edit
> > grub.conf to clone 
> > #2. That failed. 
> >
> > 	It may or may not have to do with the fact that one
> > grub.conf is 
> > full of LMV stuff and one with UUID stuff.
> >
> > 	Is there such a command as "reinstall grub," or
> > do you do it by 
> > commanding "grub" from root and doing God knows
> > what from there, or ...?
> >     
> It should be something like
> # grub-install /dev/sdX where X is a, b, c, ...?
> else try with grub? and press TAB to see options.
>
>   
> > --
> > Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
> > Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
> >
> > --
> >     
>
> Regards,
>
> Antonio 
>
>
>       
>
>   
Ok, Grub can be awesome, and it can be the suck. The best way, that 
doesn't take a giant amount of effort, is to read the site first, 
download and burn the iso, and run as you read it.

http://www.supergrubdisk.org/index.php


This has helped me with a lot of Grub related issues, including ones 
that the  IRC room didn't seem to have a handle on (Where the F7 Rescue 
ISO didn't see the LVM and grub set up, F8 saw it, but would toast the 
F7 system) and using that I fixed the Grub issues I got (It wasn't as 
pretty as Grub_ it was no o/s found at all issues, but same ballpark, 
with stage 1 grub loading from what I have read on this).


~Seann

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