Hi, I'm requesting help about a GRUB hang at boot.
The Manifestation: The last couple of lines I see upon boot: GRUB Loading stage1.5. GRUB loading, please wait... The screen then fades out and comes back with the same contents but in a slightly different font. And then nothing happens. The machine: This is a regular Pentium IV desktop running Ubuntu 7.04 (desktop). The machine had been stable for a long time. The problem appeared when I was experimenting with installing a new kernel. The new kernel had been having some trouble mounting the root partition, and after a few rounds of kernel panics upon boot this GRUB problem appeared. I've booted the machine with Ubuntu's Live CD and ensured (using fsck) that the filesystems on the partitions of the single SCSI disk are sane and usable. Based on information from Google, I've tried reinstalling GRUB on the MBR using the following two approaches: Approach I * boot from the Live CD * run the grub shell from a terminal as root * Type "root (hd0,0)" [my /boot is at /dev/sda1, which translates to hd0,0 for grub] * Type "setup (hd0)" * Quit grub by typing "quit". * Reboot Approach II * boot from a live CD and run the following from a root shell: * mount /dev/sda2 on /media/root [/dev/sda2 contains the / partition] * mount /dev/sda1 on /media/root/boot [/dev/sda1 contains the /boot partition] * chroot /media/root * mknod -m 644 /dev/sda b 8 0 * mknod -m 644 /dev/sda1 b 8 1 * mknod -m 644 /dev/sda2 b 8 2 * mknod -m 644 /dev/sda3 b 8 3 * mknod -m 644 /dev/sda4 b 8 4 * grub-install /dev/sda * reboot All commands in the above approaches run without errors. Sadly, neither of the above approaches has solved the problem. The desktop still hangs with GRUB showing the following: GRUB Loading stage1.5. GRUB loading, please wait... Once again, this problem has started manifesting suddenly. It is possibly a fallout of me trying to play with a new kernel. The good thing is that the my data is all sane. Could you please advice what I should do next? regards, Rohit.
