Catch-22 : NO JOY after all

[Seann Clark]

Antonio Olivares wrote:
>
> --- On Sat, 12/27/08, Beartooth <Beartooth at swva.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> From: Beartooth <Beartooth at swva.net>
>> Subject: Re: Catch-22 : NO JOY after all
>> To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>> Date: Saturday, December 27, 2008, 2:02 PM
>> On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:50:01 -0800, Antonio Olivares wrote:
>> 	[....]
>>     
>>> Welcome to the GRUB_ Club :)
>>> That is when you install a new kernel, machine reboots
>>>       
>> and you are
>>     
>>> greeted with a GRUB__ prompt only that does nothing :(
>>>
>>> What you need to do(to make your computer function) is
>>>       
>> to boot in rescue
>>     
>>> mode and reinstall grub.  That way you get rid of your
>>>       
>> GRUB_ problem.
>>     
>>> This GRUB_ problem has bitten many of us that it is
>>>       
>> not funny anymore. 
>>     
>>> But it happens(we can't complain, it happens to
>>>       
>> anyone of us, no one is
>>     
>>> exempt), the good thing is that there's a
>>>       
>> workaround.  Try that and
>>     
>>> report back.
>>>       
>> 	Hmmm ... What means "reinstall" here? How do you
>> do it??
>>
>> 	I did "cat grub.conf" on the #2 machine,
>> switched to #1, booted 
>> rescue, chrooted /mnt/sysimage, and proceeded to edit
>> grub.conf to clone 
>> #2. That failed. 
>>
>> 	It may or may not have to do with the fact that one
>> grub.conf is 
>> full of LMV stuff and one with UUID stuff.
>>
>> 	Is there such a command as "reinstall grub," or
>> do you do it by 
>> commanding "grub" from root and doing God knows
>> what from there, or ...?
>>     
> It should be something like
> # grub-install /dev/sdX where X is a, b, c, ...?
> else try with grub? and press TAB to see options.
>
>   
>> -- 
>> Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert
>> Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.
>>
>> -- 
>>     
>
> Regards,
>
> Antonio 
>
>
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>
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Ok, Grub can be awesome, and it can be the suck. The best way, that 
doesn't take a giant amount of effort, is to read the site first, 
download and burn the iso, and run as you read it.

http://www.supergrubdisk.org/index.php


This has helped me with a lot of Grub related issues, including ones 
that the  IRC room didn't seem to have a handle on (Where the F7 Rescue 
ISO didn't see the LVM and grub set up, F8 saw it, but would toast the 
F7 system) and using that I fixed the Grub issues I got (It wasn't as 
pretty as Grub_ it was no o/s found at all issues, but same ballpark, 
with stage 1 grub loading from what I have read on this).


~Seann
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