On Sunday 21 June 2015 15:27:09 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 21 June 2015 14:39:13 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 21 June 2015 13:40:00 EBo wrote: > > > Gene, > > > > > > It has been nearly a decade since I had to rescue a grub install. > > > Normally I would boot from a live CD/DVD and attempt a repair the > > > system without using grub at the command line. One thing to look > > > for on the net is for "grub rescue" > > > <https://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/776643-how-to-rescue-a-non- > > >bo ot ing-grub-2-on-linux/> This should explain the esoterics of > > > grub high magic. > > > > > > Hope this helps. > > > > > > EBo -- > > > > I'll see, page is printing now, and the new cd image has been > > downloaded in case this doc doesn't help. > > > > Thanks EBo. It may be that a fresh mobo is the fix, ISTR having > > HD0/SDA problems once before, but I would have though those bugs had > > been introduced to a can of Raid by now. The machine itself is both > > old & just different enough to make access difficult. > > So I took the printout oput & tried to execute the rescue commands to > boot it. I got to the "insmode normal" and got the out of disk error > again. Triggers memory, so I started a new install, but chose manual > disk configuration, then nuked the 499Gb sda1, then tried to create > a /boot partition, but found it wouldn't let me do less than 1 GB. > Then configured the rest of it, up to the swap as /. > > Thats based on the theory that since grub is the last thing installed, > it was too far into the disk to be found by this bios, which in > computer eons, is just above the KT boundary. Making a small /boot > partition should put things within reach. At least that is the theory > until it won't boot after this install. :) > > The rest of the install is continueing as if it didn't know any > better. Half an hour to boot testing again.
Bingo!!!! Its booting. :) > > In the meantime, trying to break the spindle bearings in, I left it > running at about 170r's last night, bearing at bottom of quill cooled > about 10F overnight when compared to the black body swarf bellows on > the post. Ran it back up to 400 revs & an hour later its 24F hotter > than the bellows. As this will be several thou in spindle growth, > where should I quit this monkey business and ask Grizzly for a > properly fitted and tensioned quill assembly? Or some means of > cooling. In the meantime, its quiet enough I can leave it running > until I don't see it cooling overnight, indicating equalibrium or the > rest is the grease viscosity losses. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
