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Peter Ruskin <peter.ruskin@×××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 07 May 2008, »Q« wrote: |
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> > Earlier today, I emerged grub-0.97-r5 on my x86 laptop, replacing |
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> > 0.97-r4. I didn't run grub and didn't expect anything to be done |
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> > to my boot partition. Now I've read |
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> > <http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218599>, and I suspect my |
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> > current problem has to do with that, though I don't recall |
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> > anything in grub.conf that would lead to trouble. |
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> > |
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> > I can't access the boot partition right now, and I'm posting this |
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> > in hopes of pointers for what to look at once I get the chance to |
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> > boot from a livecd. |
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> > |
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> > When I try to boot, the word GRUB gets written to the screen over |
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> > and over and over, filling the screen. Pressing keys, AFAICT so |
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> > far, doesn't stop this. The screen is just filled with "GRUB", |
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> > and I think it's an ongoing thing because of a little flicker at |
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> > the bottom right. |
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> When you emerged grub-0.97-r5, this was displayed on your console: |
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> WARN: postinst |
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> *** IMPORTANT NOTE: you must run grub and install |
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> the new version's stage1 to your MBR. Until you do, |
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> stage1 and stage2 will still be the old version, but |
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> later stages will be the new version, which could |
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> cause problems such as an unbootable system. |
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Thanks. I had assumed (d'oh!) that I could wait and read the elog if I |
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ever decided to install the new grub to my boot partition. I'm not so |
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happy with the boot partition being mounted and screwed with by the |
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ebuild, especially given I was using a grub from Fedora, not Gentoo. |
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Now I've got DONT_MOUNT_BOOT="yes" in make.conf, so I should never have |
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this kind of problem again. |
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Once I booted a livecd, running the setup command within grub fixed |
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the problem. Then once I booted Gentoo, I did it again, to get |
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whatever goodness is in this latest revision. |
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> To make life easier for situations like this, you could install grub |
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> on a floppy. |
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Even if I had a floppy drive, I'm not sure portage wouldn't find the |
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floppy and overwrite it. ;) |
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I usually have a livecd or two in my bag, but of course not when I most |
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need one. |
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