New grub problem on FC7 - suggestions anyone?
William W. Austin
waustin at speakeasy.net
Sun Sep 23 03:52:24 UTC 2007
Yesterday I installed a new kernel - kernel-2.6.22.5-76.fc7 (installed
via rpm -ivh - I never remove old kernels until I am *sure* that the
new one is OK).
That is the ONLY new package I have installed since the last reboot
(about a week ago). This morning I had to reboot (I wanted to install
a new video card), and I did so ... but then remembered something I had
to do first, so I just let the reboot cycle continue.
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).
This tells me that the wrong drive is being found by grub - this is a
server with 5 large drives on it). But beyond that I am stumped.
I've been RTFM'ing, but so far I haven't found any way to get grub to
find the right drive in the boot process - or to tell me WHICH drive it
actually is finding. (And I checked my grub.conf against a backup copy.
Except for adding the new kernel, they are identical.) Removing the
new kernel did not help (nor did re-installing it).
Any suggestions would be welcome - not having grub working is
inconvenient at best.
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william w. austin waustin at speakeasy.net
"life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."
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