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

kitepilot@kitepilot.com wrote:
  

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@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.  
      

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