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On Fri, 24 Aug 2007, Marc Joliet wrote: |
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> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:45:38 +0200 |
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> From: Marc Joliet <marcec@×××.de> |
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> Reply-To: <gentoo-amd64@l.g.o> |
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> To: Gentoo-User ML <gentoo-user@l.g.o> |
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> Cc: Gentoo-AMD64 ML <gentoo-amd64@l.g.o> |
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> Subject: [gentoo-amd64] possible MBR corruption? |
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> Hi, |
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> After the reboot following my daily upgrade from yesterday - during |
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> which a revised kernel was installed - GRUB just wouldn't finish |
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> starting. It's attempt to start looked like this: |
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> GRUB _ |
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> with the underscore blinking. Ctrl-alt-del (reboot) worked. |
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> Now, to make it clear, I solved that: after finding out that I could |
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> make a bootable GRUB CD, I made one from within a live-CD (c't |
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> Knoppicillin 5.2). I was then able to boot into Gentoo with it and |
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> reinstalled GRUB into the MBR. Don't you just love GRUB ;-)? |
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> What I *do* want to know, however, is how the hell the MBR could have |
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> been wrecked in the first place. All I did was install the new |
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> kernel/initramfs via |
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> $ genkernel --lvm2 --symlink --install all [1] |
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> , edit grub.conf appropriately and reboot. It worked flawlessly until |
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> now. Is Genkernel known to cause anything like this? |
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> For the record: I have a Windows partition, but never use it[3]. So I |
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> can't imagine how that might be related. In the event that it helps, |
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> here's a list of the packages that were updated to yesterday: |
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> =net-misc/rsync-2.6.9-r3 |
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> =media-sound/madplay-0.15.2b-r1 |
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> =media-libs/libdvdcss-1.2.9-r1 |
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> =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r5 |
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> =app-misc/beagle-0.2.17 |
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> =app-arch/tar-1.18-r2 |
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> Also, just to understand the issue better, am I correct in assuming that |
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> GRUB *always* installs its stage1 into the MBR or a boot sector (unless |
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> you install it onto a floppy or CD)? I know it's a stupid question, but |
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> I want to be sure that it was in the MBR in the first place, in the |
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> event that there was a completely different cause. If it helps, this was |
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> originally a Sabayon 3.20 install. A lot has changed since the initial |
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> install, though ;-). |
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> Of course, it could just be random disk corruption, but I sure hope not. |
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> - SATA drive: Seagate ST3320620AS |
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> - Motherboard: Asus M2N-E |
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Surprising ! |
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I am using Seagate ST3320620AS 16Mb,NCQ with Asus M2N-MX. |
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No issues what so ever. |
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In fact as part of your grub installation on MBR, |
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could use the verbose option to see how things are going. |
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thanks |
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Saifi. |
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