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Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> I've no idea how it broke, but after an emerge --sync, a kernel |
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> (gentoo-sources) update was there. After I compiled the kernel, I did |
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> the usual "make modules_install && make install". I edited grub.conf |
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> only to the point of changing the booted kernel to the new one (just a |
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> matter of changing -r1 to -r2 at the end of the kernel filename). I |
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> reboot, Grub stops working. It just displays "GRUB" and hangs there. |
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> What might have cause this? /boot is a 50MB ext3 partition with 14MB |
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> free. I had to boot from a live CD and make sda1 bootable (Windows XP) |
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> so I can get online and burn a repair CD that supports ext4 (/). |
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Back. Grub was booting inside a VM under XP even though it refused to |
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boot for "real". So I booted in a VM and reinstalled Grub from there. |
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I'm left to wonder now how copying a new kernel into /boot with "make |
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install" can possibly make Grub go fubar... |
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