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Re: Grub failing ot install to mbr
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Robert Millan |
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Re: Grub failing ot install to mbr |
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Sun, 10 Feb 2008 16:24:56 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
Can you reproduce this problem with GRUB 2 ?
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 05:13:46AM -0800, Yan Seiner wrote:
> 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
>
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