I copied over stage1, stage2 and e2fs_stage1_5 from Steve's tarball onto
/boot/grub and used the grub shell to reinstall grub:
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grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)
Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... no
Checking if "/grub/stage1" exists... yes
Checking if "/grub/stage2" exists... yes
Checking if "/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes
Running "embed /grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 15 sectors are embedded.
succeeded
Running "install /grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+15 p (hd0,0)/grub/stage2
/grub/menu
.lst"... succeeded
Done.
Upon rebooting the machine, I still get the GRUB hang. :-(
rohit.
On 5/29/07, Rohit Grover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You're using /dev/sda - scsi ( well probably sata ) drivers, which are
> rarely built into the kernel. The initramfs is unzipped ( iirc it's a cpio
> archive ), and some of the contents will provide the module required to get
> it to recognise the disk properly, rather than the explicit method used to
> read the initramfs image.
I don't see the drive LED flashing once the hang begins, which to some
extent indicates that the kernel/initrd doesn't get loaded. But it could
also be that I'm not quick enough to spot the few disk IOs it takes to fetch
the kernel/initrd.
You may not have the correct modules in the images, or, as you say, you
> may have damaged something. You can wget the contents of /boot/grub ( minus
> menu.lst ) from my current feisty install...2.6.20.15-generic from
> http://www.greengecko.co.nz/grub.tar.gz - see if they help.
Got your tarball. I can untar it on /boot/grub (or what would have been
/boot/grub had my system been functioning properly). I'm a bit ginger about
untarring the contents on /boot/grub. Preliminary inspection indicates that
stage1 is the same, but stage2 is different (even of a different size).
Moreover, some other *stage1_5 files are of a different size too.
What is your recommendation? should I untar and reinstall grub after
chrooting to make / be the same as /dev/sda2 (my previous root)?
thanks a lot for helping.
regards,
Rohit.
