error: you need to load the kernel first

[Andre Robatino]

After today's Rawhide grub2 update, I ran "grub2-install /dev/sda" and
"grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg". When rebooting, I can't boot any of
the installed kernels because of "error: you need to load the kernel first".
This is a VirtualBox guest and AFAIK /dev/sda is the correct device (it worked
in the past). Did I do something wrong or is the latest grub2 broken?

I did boot in rescue mode and ran the same commands again after doing "chroot
/mnt/sysimage/". No change.

[Frederick William New]

On Friday, June 29, 2012 10:54 PM Andre Robatino wrote:
> After today's Rawhide grub2 update, I ran "grub2-install /dev/sda" and
> "grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg". When rebooting, I can't boot any
> of the installed kernels because of "error: you need to load the kernel
> first". This is a VirtualBox guest and AFAIK /dev/sda is the correct device
> (it worked in the past). Did I do something wrong or is the latest grub2
> broken?
>
> I did boot in rescue mode and ran the same commands again after doing
> "chroot /mnt/sysimage/". No change.

That reminds me of what I got when I reversed the kernel and initrd lines
in the grub.conf for GRUB1.

Does your grub.cfg have linux lines preceding the initrd lines?

Fred

[Andre Robatino]

Frederick William New <Frederick-William.New <at> Elion.ee> writes:
> That reminds me of what I got when I reversed the kernel and initrd lines
> in the grub.conf for GRUB1.
>
> Does your grub.cfg have linux lines preceding the initrd lines?

http://robatino.fedorapeople.org/grub.cfg

[Adam Williamson]

On Fri, 2012-06-29 at 19:53 +0000, Andre Robatino wrote:
> After today's Rawhide grub2 update, I ran "grub2-install /dev/sda" and
> "grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg". When rebooting, I can't boot any of
> the installed kernels because of "error: you need to load the kernel first".
> This is a VirtualBox guest and AFAIK /dev/sda is the correct device (it worked
> in the past). Did I do something wrong or is the latest grub2 broken?
>
> I did boot in rescue mode and ran the same commands again after doing "chroot
> /mnt/sysimage/". No change.

Try doing another grub2-install . I think you're really supposed to do
the install _after_ the mkconfig.

[Andre Robatino]

Adam Williamson <awilliam <at> redhat.com> writes:
> Try doing another grub2-install . I think you're really supposed to do
> the install _after_ the mkconfig.

No change after doing first mkconfig and then install.

[SOLVED] error: you need to load the kernel first.

[Andre Robatino]

Using grub2-install with grub2-2.00-1.fc18 breaks booting. Do *not* run
grub2-install while using this version. Recovery requires downgrading to an
earlier version of grub2 and running grub2-install and grub2-mkconfig again.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=836695