On Saturday 13 October 2007 13:26:10 Hans Witvliet wrote: > As you wish, Stephan... > > -------- Forwarded Message -------- > > First shot (with gm) at 10.3 > > System: hp dl320/G4 with 4GB, no extra hw-installed, was running 10.2 > Images were verified > > Before i try anything special, i always do a default installation, > nothing fancy selected. No-go this time! > > After installation (reboot) it returns > grub 21 > > Although i know that it's half of "life, universe and the rest" ;) > It's a bit short. > > Looking at http://www.uruk.org/orig-grub/errors.html > it got some more details about grub-errors. > > However, for 21 it says: > > 21 : "Unknown boot failure" > This error is returned if the boot attempt did not succeed for reasons > which are unknown. > > Wry thing is, at that stage, its not possible to examine any logfiles > as there is no other os on the system. > > Obviously, during the grub-install, something is forgotten, or went > wrong (will investigate further on monday). Would it be possible during > grub-install to perform a test to test if it succesfully installed the > bootloader. > > And if it fails this test don't reboot, but fall into the cli? > > Hans
I tried to upgrade from 10.2 to 10.3 and ran into problems with grub on reboot. I found that the grub entry was root (/dev/sdb1,0) I didn't have a clue as to what was going on but my colleague explained that this syntax was foreign to grub. replacing the entry with: root (hd1,0) did the trick. If I understand correct the grub entry "hd1" refers to the second disk (as the grub count starts at 0) and the "0" refers to the first partition. Hope that helps Eddie -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
