On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 3:19 PM, Kim Eik <[email protected]> wrote: > Fixed it by upgrading to ubuntu lucid's version of grub. > > On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 14:49 -0700, Michael Evans wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Kim Eik <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I have been running a server for about half a year. And i have restarted >> > the >> > machine countless times w/o any problems. However two days ago, grub >> > stopped >> > working. >> > >> > The machine is running ubuntu server 9.10, i have two physical disks >> > mirrored with sw raid and several lvm partitions on top. The machine is >> > also >> > running ACHI. >> > >> > I have booted the system using a usb pendrive with ubuntu-alternate, and >> > reinstalled grub from a chrooted environment. But sadly to no effect. >> > >> > I have also tried installing grub to the mbr of both disks and booting from >> > each of them. Also without any effect. >> > >> > I do however have a hunch that the fault may lie in a dist-upgrade from >> > somewhere between my previous successfull boot and now. So i am gonna try >> > to >> > see if i can rollback some installed software and see if this fixes grub. >> > >> > Is there anything you guuys can suggest that i do? I am not very familiar >> > with the inner workings of grub2 so any help is appreciated. >> > >> > Thanks >> > -Kim >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Help-grub mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub >> > >> >> Booting from a USB drive, or any other 'hard disk emulation mode' >> device will cause your bios-disk order to be detected different when >> running grub than it will be during a normal operation. >> >> You probably need to look in to manually editing /boot/grub/device.map >> (google for it) and specifying the proper bios-disk mapping. Whatever >> disk your bios is trying to boot off of will be hd0; there is usually >> no solid standard for the other devices, but they MAY be stable for a >> single bios version on a single system. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Help-grub mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub > > >
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