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

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

I usually boot a rescue disk and do the following commands.
chroot /mnt/sysimage/root_parition (Fedora mounts the drive under
sysimage, and you need to mount the root partition)
( After the chroot, you may also need to mount the /boot partition)
mount /proc
mount /sys
grub-install /dev/drive ( where drive is the boot disk)
umount /proc /sys
exit
reboot


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
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>> 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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