Re: [gentoo-user] Grub broke out of the blue

[Roy Wright]

Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> I've no idea how it broke, but after an emerge --sync, a kernel
> (gentoo-sources) update was there.  After I compiled the kernel, I did
> the usual "make modules_install && make install".  I edited grub.conf
> only to the point of changing the booted kernel to the new one (just a
> matter of changing -r1 to -r2 at the end of the kernel filename).  I
> reboot, Grub stops working.  It just displays "GRUB" and hangs there.

I normally don't edit my grub.conf, instead I have entries for
vmlinuz and vmlinuz.old (make install updates these).

When I do edit grub.conf, I always run grub-install afterwards.
I don't know if this is necessary, but it's my habit...

HTH,
Roy