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Grub failing ot install to mbr
From: |
Yan Seiner |
Subject: |
Grub failing ot install to mbr |
Date: |
Tue, 05 Feb 2008 05:13:46 -0800 |
User-agent: |
Icedove 1.5.0.14pre (X11/20071025) |
I have a remotely administered machine that has lost its boot sector.
This machine has worked fine for several years. We recently tried to
update the kernel. On a reboot, the local sysadmin noticed some sort of
error flash by on the screen, and now the machine won't boot. We can't
seem to get grub back into the MBR.
We've created a grub floppy and reinstalled the stage 1, 1.5, and 2 loaders.
Now on reboot we're getting a message that says,
"Console redirect"
and the machine freezes.
As far as we know, console redirection is not enabled anywhere on the
machine.
So.... Is it possible that grub used some random file rather than its
stage 1 loader?
The machine has a boot partition, and we used
grub> find /grub/stage1
hd(0,0)
hd(1,0)
grub> root hd(0,0)
grub> setup hd(0)
grub> root hd(1,0)
grub> setup hd(1)
to install the bootloader on both RAID-1 mirrors. Grub installed
everything without any errors.
Anyone have any suggestions? I'm pretty stumped....
--Yan
- Grub failing ot install to mbr,
Yan Seiner <=