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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub broke out of the blue
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 04:55:16
Message-Id: gndfp6$h8s$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Grub broke out of the blue by Stroller
1 Stroller wrote:
2 >
3 > On 17 Feb 2009, at 04:17, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
4 >
5 >> I've no idea how it broke, but after an emerge --sync, a kernel
6 >> (gentoo-sources) update was there. After I compiled the kernel, I did
7 >> the usual "make modules_install && make install". I edited grub.conf
8 >> only to the point of changing the booted kernel to the new one (just a
9 >> matter of changing -r1 to -r2 at the end of the kernel filename). I
10 >> reboot, Grub stops working. It just displays "GRUB" and hangs there.
11 >>
12 >> What might have cause this?
13 >
14 >
15 > $ cat /var/log/portage/elog/sys-boot:grub-0.97-r6:20090117-194927.log
16 > LOG: preinst
17
18 I did not update or re-install grub. The only thing I did was compile a
19 kernel and copy the kernel image to /boot.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Grub broke out of the blue Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk>