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

[kitepilot at 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 

 


kitepilot at kitepilot.com writes: 

> 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 did this as I have done it 7368269 and-a-half times before for the last 
> few years...  
> 
> Soooo...
> Then I spawned another machine the same way and configured them to act as 
> server and a client.  They have worked fine and they work.  
> 
> Then I need to duplicate this 2 machines.
> Well, easy, I've done it millions of times, haven't I?.  
> 
> Not this time...
> One machine hangs on:
> GRUB Loading stage1.5(GARBAGE-GARBAGE-GARBAGE)
> The other one just scrolls the screen endlessly...   :(  
> 
> I have tried every trick I know, I checked the partitions boot flag, I 
> md5sum(ed) the files and they are not corrupted, GRUB doesn't give me 
> otherwise any errors, and I am at the end of my rope...  
> 
> FWIW, I saw something like this before and I fixed it with a newer copy of 
> GRUB, but being this an old RedHat in really OLD hardware, I'm getting me 
> this time and OLDER copy of GRUB.  
> 
> Ideas?
> Thanks!
> Enrique
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