On Thu, 2009-04-16 at 13:40 -0700, Word Wizard wrote: > Why did they migrate to UUIDs in grub? What is the advantage? Can you > employ the other device notations in grub? Can lilo be used in Intrepid > instead? Or another boot loader? >
Can you post your grub.conf to the list? I believe a bit of commentary on your current config may offer great insight into your grub challenges... -Eric > Thanks, > > Word Wizard > > > On Wed, 2009-04-15 at 19:59 -0700, Dwight Hubbard wrote: > > > Grub stores the actual physical locations of the datablocks of it's > > stage 1.5 or stage 2 files in the bootblock. If you restore from a > > tar archive the location of the blocks for the grub stage files will > > almost certainly be different and as a result grub will generate an > > error 15 because it can't find them. > > > > After restoring from a tar archive you need to chroot into the newly > > restored filesystem and run a grub-install to cause the restored > > system to write the grub stage file locations to the boot block. > > > > Or you can restore grub from the grub command. If my memory serves > > the commands would look something like this (assuming your /boot > > filesystem (hd0,1) and you want the boot block on the first hard disk: > > root (hd0,1) > > setup (hd0) > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
