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

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Author: Charles Jones
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To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: One of those (few) days that GRUB sucks...
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 mounted your root partition there for you)
> * grub-install
> * cross fingers and reboot
>
> -Charles
>
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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