One of those (few) days that GRUB sucks...

2009-03-23 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
History: I have a running machine, I booted it up with KNOPPIX, grabbed another hardware-wise fairly current empty machine, booted it up with the same KNOPPIX, rsync(ed) [-aH --super] one HD to the other, ran GRUB, root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) and I got a perfect clone running. So far so good... I

Re: One of those (few) days that GRUB sucks...

2009-03-23 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
Well, I burned an LFS CD, GRUB(ed) the drive AND the partition and still the same problem... :( Does anybody have a gun? ET kitepi...@kitepilot.com writes: History: I have a running machine, I booted it up with KNOPPIX, grabbed another hardware-wise fairly current empty machine,

Re: One of those (few) days that GRUB sucks...

2009-03-23 Thread Charles Jones
Last time I had a weird grub issue like this I fixed it via: * Boot redhat cd in rescue mode linux rescue * As soon as you can get to a shell, chroot /mnt/sysimage (assuming rescue mode mounted your root partition there for you) * grub-install * cross fingers and reboot -Charles

Re: One of those (few) days that GRUB sucks...

2009-03-23 Thread Charles Jones
I forgot to mention to make sure that your /boot is mounted after you do the chroot. Charles Jones wrote: Last time I had a weird grub issue like this I fixed it via: * Boot redhat cd in rescue mode linux rescue * As soon as you can get to a shell, chroot /mnt/sysimage (assuming rescue mode

Re: One of those (few) days that GRUB sucks... (FIXED)

2009-03-23 Thread kitepi...@kitepilot.com
I downloaded a CD from http://www.supergrubdisk.org/ Got a GRUB menu and typed c Did the normal root, setup dance, got the same messages, booted and GO FIGURE It works now... One of those days... ET kitepi...@kitepilot.com writes: History: I have a running machine, I booted it up

Re: One of those (few) days that GRUB sucks...

2009-03-23 Thread Joe
I usually boot a rescue disk and do the following commands. chroot /mnt/sysimage/root_parition (Fedora mounts the drive under sysimage, and you need to mount the root partition) ( After the chroot, you may also need to mount the /boot partition) mount /proc mount /sys grub-install /dev/drive (