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On Friday 22 September 2006 03:21, fire-eyes wrote: |
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> Hello, I'm stumped here, so i'm open for suggestions. |
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> My system refuses to boot fully. What happens is it powers on, and i see |
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> a very quick flash that says something along the lines of "Loading Grub |
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> Stage 1.5", and then a reboot. This just continues in a loop. |
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> In the past few days, I was upgrading glibc to 2.4 and also to gcc |
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> 4.1.1. I was using the GCC upgrade guide. Everything went well until it |
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> was time to reboot. I did do an emerge -e world. |
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> I remerged grub, and used the grub console to reinstall. I have checked |
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> my grub.conf, it looks fine. It also does not have any trailing garbage |
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> (suggestion from others). |
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> I also recompiled and reinstalled my kernel, making sure it was compiled |
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> with gcc 4.1.1. |
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> Many times i got back in via chroot, and tried to reinstall grub, but to |
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> no avail. It sees the disks, it sees the partitions, it sees the |
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> filesystems. |
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> So I am not sure what to do next. I flung about 4 hours of time at this |
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> with no change. |
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> Any ideas? |
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Does this help? |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/grub-error-guide.xml |
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Alternatively, please post the usual info: fdisk -l, grub.conf, df -h and |
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we'll take it from there. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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