Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
I've no idea how it broke, but after an emerge --sync, a kernel
(gentoo-sources) update was there. After I compiled the kernel, I did
the usual "make modules_install && make install". I edited grub.conf
only to the point of changing the booted kernel to the new one (just a
matter of changing -r1 to -r2 at the end of the kernel filename). I
reboot, Grub stops working. It just displays "GRUB" and hangs there.
What might have cause this? /boot is a 50MB ext3 partition with 14MB
free. I had to boot from a live CD and make sda1 bootable (Windows XP)
so I can get online and burn a repair CD that supports ext4 (/).
Back. Grub was booting inside a VM under XP even though it refused to
boot for "real". So I booted in a VM and reinstalled Grub from there.
I'm left to wonder now how copying a new kernel into /boot with "make
install" can possibly make Grub go fubar...
