Re: [gentoo-user] Strange grub problem
Ivan Alden wrote: Hi, My laptop ran out of battery and shut off while I was using it and it seems to have done some damage to the bootloader. When I reboot I can't see the grub splashscreen any more but if I press enter I does boot into my kernel. As the computer is booting the output looks all messed up (but you can make that its initializing devices) until it reaches around the networking devices which then corrects and works properly. I've tried reconfiguring grub with root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) Does anybody have any suggestions of how to fix this? Thanks. This was discussed over the past day or so. If I recall correctly the splash image has been moved by some package update. Just check that everything your grub boot line points to is actually there. If you need more info, I can search through my old emails and find the fixes for you. Dale :-) :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange grub problem
On Sunday 20 July 2008, Ivan Alden wrote: When I reboot I can't see the grub splashscreen any more but if I press enter I does boot into my kernel. As the computer is booting the output looks all messed up (but you can make that its initializing devices) until it reaches around the networking devices which then corrects and works properly. ... Does anybody have any suggestions of how to fix this? Copy a grub splash image from /usr/share/grub/ or /usr/share/splashimages/ back into your /boot/grub/ The last grub upgrade has messed up your settings without asking you - unacceptable behaviour for an ebuild. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange grub problem
Ivan Alden schrieb: Hi, My laptop ran out of battery and shut off while I was using it and it seems to have done some damage to the bootloader. When I reboot I can't see the grub splashscreen any more but if I press enter I does boot into my kernel. As the computer is booting the output looks all messed up (but you can make that its initializing devices) until it reaches around the networking devices which then corrects and works properly. I've tried reconfiguring grub with root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) Does anybody have any suggestions of how to fix this? Thanks. Maybe it is this grub splashimage problem. If so, see for grub emerge make boot screen and others unreadable in this mailing list. If not, I am sorry, don't know an answer. KH
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange grub problem
Thanks its fixed. I guess it was coincidence I lost power at the same time to this issue. I appreciate the help. Ivan On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 01:24 -0500, Dale wrote: Ivan Alden wrote: Hi, My laptop ran out of battery and shut off while I was using it and it seems to have done some damage to the bootloader. When I reboot I can't see the grub splashscreen any more but if I press enter I does boot into my kernel. As the computer is booting the output looks all messed up (but you can make that its initializing devices) until it reaches around the networking devices which then corrects and works properly. I've tried reconfiguring grub with root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) Does anybody have any suggestions of how to fix this? Thanks. This was discussed over the past day or so. If I recall correctly the splash image has been moved by some package update. Just check that everything your grub boot line points to is actually there. If you need more info, I can search through my old emails and find the fixes for you. Dale :-) :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange grub problem
Ivan Alden wrote: Hi, My laptop ran out of battery and shut off while I was using it and it seems to have done some damage to the bootloader. When I reboot I can't see the grub splashscreen any more but if I press enter I does boot into my kernel. As the computer is booting the output looks all messed up (but you can make that its initializing devices) until it reaches around the networking devices which then corrects and works properly. I've tried reconfiguring grub with root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) Does anybody have any suggestions of how to fix this? Thanks. Hello Ivan, I had just yesterday exactly the same problem, not because my laptop runs out of battery, but because of full system update. I do it only once a week. Anyway. I could fix it in the following way: - Switch off your laptop and wait some seconds. - Start your laptop - Boot your kernel, you have to imaging on which position in the boot menu this one is - after the machine is up and running - emerge -av grub - reboot and it should be fine That's it. Hope I could help W. Canis signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange grub problem
Ivan Alden wrote: Thanks its fixed. I guess it was coincidence I lost power at the same time to this issue. I appreciate the help. Ivan On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 01:24 -0500, Dale wrote: Ivan Alden wrote: Hi, My laptop ran out of battery and shut off while I was using it and it seems to have done some damage to the bootloader. When I reboot I can't see the grub splashscreen any more but if I press enter I does boot into my kernel. As the computer is booting the output looks all messed up (but you can make that its initializing devices) until it reaches around the networking devices which then corrects and works properly. I've tried reconfiguring grub with root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) Does anybody have any suggestions of how to fix this? Thanks. This was discussed over the past day or so. If I recall correctly the splash image has been moved by some package update. Just check that everything your grub boot line points to is actually there. If you need more info, I can search through my old emails and find the fixes for you. Dale :-) :-) :-) Your welcome. Just a normal reboot would have helped that issue come out of the dark too. You are not alone in having that happen. Glad you got it sorted. Dale :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange grub problem
Oh sorry, _very_ _important_ : Mount your boot partition _before_ you emerge grub. W. Canis signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange grub problem
On Sunday 20 July 2008, Wolf Canis wrote: Oh sorry, _very_ _important_ : Mount your boot partition _before_ you emerge grub. I believe that the grub ebuild mounts it for you, messes up your grub.conf and carries on with its business . . . -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange grub problem
same here with the latest grub update on x86. setting the console font restores normal operation during the boot process. t Ivan Alden wrote: Hi, My laptop ran out of battery and shut off while I was using it and it seems to have done some damage to the bootloader. When I reboot I can't see the grub splashscreen any more but if I press enter I does boot into my kernel. As the computer is booting the output looks all messed up (but you can make that its initializing devices) until it reaches around the networking devices which then corrects and works properly. I've tried reconfiguring grub with root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) Does anybody have any suggestions of how to fix this? Thanks.
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange grub problem
Mick wrote:
On Sunday 20 July 2008, Wolf Canis wrote:
Oh sorry,
_very_ _important_ :
Mount your boot partition _before_ you emerge grub.
I believe that the grub ebuild mounts it for you, messes up your grub.conf
and
carries on with its business . . .
So far I that now, is that now changed. You have to mount it before
you emerge grub. The following is from the ebuild grub-0.97-r6.ebuild:
-- Quote begin -
pkg_postinst() {
if [[ -n ${DONT_MOUNT_BOOT} ]]; then
elog WARNING: you have DONT_MOUNT_BOOT in effect, so you must
apply
elog the following instructions for your /boot!
elog Neglecting to do so may cause your system to fail to boot!
elog
else
setup_boot_dir ${ROOT}/boot
# Trailing output because if this is run from pkg_postinst, it
gets mixed into
# the other output.
einfo
fi
elog To interactively install grub files to another device such as
a USB
elog stick, just run the following and specify the directory as
prompted:
elogemerge --config =${PF}
elog Alternately, you can export GRUB_ALT_INSTALLDIR=/path/to/use
to tell
elog grub where to install in a non-interactive way.
}
-- Quote end --
W. Canis
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Re: [gentoo-user] Strange grub problem
On Sunday 20 July 2008, Wolf Canis wrote: Mick wrote: On Sunday 20 July 2008, Wolf Canis wrote: Oh sorry, _very_ _important_ : Mount your boot partition _before_ you emerge grub. I believe that the grub ebuild mounts it for you, messes up your grub.conf and carries on with its business . . . So far I that now, is that now changed. You have to mount it before you emerge grub. The following is from the ebuild grub-0.97-r6.ebuild: Good! That's the preferred behaviour. It shouldn't really mess things up without asking. -- Regards, Mick signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange grub problem
Mick wrote: On Sunday 20 July 2008, Wolf Canis wrote: Mick wrote: On Sunday 20 July 2008, Wolf Canis wrote: Oh sorry, _very_ _important_ : Mount your boot partition _before_ you emerge grub. I believe that the grub ebuild mounts it for you, messes up your grub.conf and carries on with its business . . . So far I that now, is that now changed. You have to mount it before you emerge grub. The following is from the ebuild grub-0.97-r6.ebuild: Good! That's the preferred behaviour. It shouldn't really mess things up without asking. Yeh, you are right, but that seems not always to be true. :-( signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Strange grub problem
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:28:09 +0100, Mick wrote: I believe that the grub ebuild mounts it for you, messes up your grub.conf and carries on with its business It doesn't touch grub.conf, that would be unacceptable. What is does do is it no longer installs the default splash image to /boot, so that is removed when the previous version is unmerged. If you use a different image, or even if you have touched the existing splashimage file, your boot won't be affected. -- Neil Bothwick God said, div D = rho, div B = 0, curl E = - @B/@t, curl H = J + @D/@t, and there was light. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] Strange grub problem
Hi, My laptop ran out of battery and shut off while I was using it and it seems to have done some damage to the bootloader. When I reboot I can't see the grub splashscreen any more but if I press enter I does boot into my kernel. As the computer is booting the output looks all messed up (but you can make that its initializing devices) until it reaches around the networking devices which then corrects and works properly. I've tried reconfiguring grub with root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) Does anybody have any suggestions of how to fix this? Thanks.
