[gentoo-user] Re: Rebooted and now I only see the word GRUB [FIXED]
On 06/28/2012 10:14 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: After booting from gentoo minimal livecd, chrooting into my hard drive, re-emerging grub:0 (just in case it has to be built against my latest kernel) and then running grub and doing: root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) it booted normally again. I guess I failed to reinstall grub like this after a portage update at some point... logs show I last instlaled it in May, and have rebooted since then without problem, maybe it was something else. Weird. :) Just for future reference, the grub command line mode will let you change all kinds of things that will make it possible for you to boot from such a situation with very little effort. When you see the empty grub menu, hit tab to see the list of commands. Same for grub2, but the syntax is slightly different. Just as one example, type 'root' at the grub CLI prompt.
[gentoo-user] Re: Rebooted and now I only see the word GRUB [FIXED]
On 06/29/2012 06:19 PM, walt wrote: Just for future reference Oops, never mind. I misread your original post :(
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Rebooted and now I only see the word GRUB [FIXED]
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 8:31 PM, walt w41...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/29/2012 06:19 PM, walt wrote: Just for future reference Oops, never mind. I misread your original post :( It's okay, I think at some point I must have updated something grub depends on, so it wasn't able to load the stages. My grub is built with -static USE flag, maybe I should change that!
[gentoo-user] Re: Rebooted and now I only see the word GRUB [FIXED]
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Tonight I rebooted and only see the text GRUB followed by a blinking cursor, never the grub menu. I'm using grub legacy and ~amd64. Of course my recovery options depend on GRUB actually working, so I'm downloading the latest gentoo minimal CD for now so I can hopefully get in and see what's going wrong and fix it, or reinstall grub at least. Anyone run into this problem or have any idea what's causing it? I'm not sure if GRUB 0.xx was updated recently, I don't remember seeing it emerged... After booting from gentoo minimal livecd, chrooting into my hard drive, re-emerging grub:0 (just in case it has to be built against my latest kernel) and then running grub and doing: root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) it booted normally again. I guess I failed to reinstall grub like this after a portage update at some point... logs show I last instlaled it in May, and have rebooted since then without problem, maybe it was something else. Weird. :)
