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

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



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.
>
> Ideas?
> Thanks!
> Enrique
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