F16 grub2 prompt, help needed

Fri Oct 14 11:11:26 UTC 2011

On Fri, 14 Oct 2011 10:22:21 +0100, FM (Frank) wrote:

> After todays update.
> 
> Grub2 replaced grub.
> 
> rebooted grub menu still loading.
> So did.
> grub2-mkconfig
> done.

Running grub2-mkconfig without options does only print the config file
to standard output. You would need

  grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

to actually overwrite your GRUB 2 config file.

> grub2-install /dev/vda
> no errors reported.
> 
> rebooted got:
> grub >

A working command-line? If so, you could use GRUB's commands to search
for and load the grub.cfg file manually, then boot it.

> Where do I go from here,
> to get a booting vm back.
> 

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