> Does it not display any errors? No - no errors, straight to the grub2 command line.
> This menu entry looks good to me > (only difference here is kernel version, UUIDs and root partition). > Sounds like it may not be installed correctly... just to confirm here > are the few things you should have to do: > > 1. Edit "/etc/default/grub" Perhaps disable quiet stuff and any > graphical settings just for now. > 2. Run "grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg" > 3. Run "grub2-install --no-floppy /dev/sda" Yes that's what i did. No changes to default/grub though. > If you have another hard drive it's possible the order is different > from when you installed grub, but this would give an error Its a single disk system, and grub1 was fine before i installed grub2. I am assuming that if i don't need an initrd in grub1 i likewise don't need one in grub2.