On Friday 24 August 2007, Marc Joliet wrote: > Am Freitag, den 24.08.2007, 19:42 +0100 schrieb Mick:
> > At that stage you should have checked if the symlink /boot/grub/menu.lst > > is still there and, or if its permissions were messed up. > > Yes, I should have. I know it was there, though, since I mounted /boot/ > in the live-CD to check if I had made a typo. However, I doubt that was > the problem, since I copied the menu.lst for inclusion in the grub.iso > and it worked. Hmm, in that case then the symlink may not have been the problem. > Note that on my System menu.lst is a Symlink to > grub.conf. If this isn't standard Gentoo, please let me know. Yes, this is the default gentoo: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 9 Mar 26 2006 menu.lst -> grub.conf > Also, does > > grub> root (hd0,5) > grub> setup (hd0) > > touch anything other than the MBR and stages if you already have a boot > partition installed? Of course, I didn't keep record of grubs output, > so, yeah... there goes all potentially useful information. OK, the above commands install Grub boot code in the MBR of the first hard disk and the Grub fs in the /boot directory within /dev/hda6. I assume that your /boot directory is meant to be in /dev/hda6? > However, could it be related to bug 189934? Reading through the linked > bug 132135, I "switched" /lib and /lib64, so instead of /lib64 being a > Symlink to /lib, /lib is now a Symlink to /lib64. From a cursory look, I don't think so. > > I doubt that the MBR was wrecked, because if it were wrecked you wouldn't > > see the Grub prompt and would just get a BIOS message. > > Heh, that's obvious *blushes*... However, I didn't really mean > "completely hosed". Could it have been a broken stage1 that only started > in part, or the like? Could be I guess, but I'm not sure. > > I have no experience with Sabayon either, but Grub will install wherever > > you tell it to install. That can be in the Master Boot Record (e.g. > > system (hd0,0) oops! I meant to say: system (hd0) > > or in any partition's boot record (e.g. system (hd0,1). [snip] > Yeah, I should have set noauto the instant I found out about it. Any > other recommended mount options? Right now they are > > defaults,noauto,user_xattr 1 2 > > which is how it was installed (except for noauto, of course). These options look OK to me as long as you remember to manually mount /boot every time you are installing a new kernel. -- Regards, Mick
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