Can you reproduce this problem with GRUB 2 ?
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 05:13:46AM -0800, Yan Seiner wrote: > I have a remotely administered machine that has lost its boot sector. > This machine has worked fine for several years. We recently tried to > update the kernel. On a reboot, the local sysadmin noticed some sort of > error flash by on the screen, and now the machine won't boot. We can't > seem to get grub back into the MBR. > > We've created a grub floppy and reinstalled the stage 1, 1.5, and 2 loaders. > > Now on reboot we're getting a message that says, > > "Console redirect" > > and the machine freezes. > > As far as we know, console redirection is not enabled anywhere on the > machine. > > So.... Is it possible that grub used some random file rather than its > stage 1 loader? > > The machine has a boot partition, and we used > > grub> find /grub/stage1 > > hd(0,0) > hd(1,0) > > grub> root hd(0,0) > grub> setup hd(0) > grub> root hd(1,0) > grub> setup hd(1) > > to install the bootloader on both RAID-1 mirrors. Grub installed > everything without any errors. > > Anyone have any suggestions? I'm pretty stumped.... > > --Yan > > > _______________________________________________ > Bug-grub mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub > -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Bug-grub mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-grub
