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On Thursday 24 December 2009 08:52:37 Daniel D Jones wrote: |
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> Just did a stage 3 install following a HD crash on a new HD. The initial |
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> install went without issue and I booted from the HD normally. I then went |
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> through and installed a bunch of packages - xorg, kde, etc. I installed |
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> genkernel, compiled a custom kernel, and updated /boot/grub/menu.lst. |
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> Upon rebooting, I ended up at a grub command line. I can setup the hard |
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> drive without errors: |
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> grub> root (hd0,0) |
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> Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 |
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> grub> setup (hd0) |
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> Checking if "/boot/grub/stage1" exists... yes |
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> Checking if "/boot/grub/stage2" exists... yes |
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> Checking if "/boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5" exists... yes |
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> Running "embed /boot/grub/e2fs_stage1_5 (hd0)"... 17 sectors are |
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> embedded. succeeded |
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> Running "install /boot/grub/stage1 (hd0) (hd0)1+17 p |
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> (hd0,0)/boot/grub/stage2 /boot/grub/menu.lst"... succeeded |
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> Done. |
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> No errors, says everything's good. Reboot and I'm right back at the |
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> command line. |
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Found the issue. For some reason, the default menu.lst created with the stage |
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3 install had the title line commented out. When I added the new genkernel to |
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the file, I copied and pasted, then edited the kernel line. My guess is that |
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grub uses the title line as the flag to break between options. With both title |
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lines commented out, it saw a single option block with multiple kernel |
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statements. Uncommenting the title lines corrected the issue. |
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"The unnatural, that too is natural." - Goethe |
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