Hi, After the reboot following my daily upgrade from yesterday - during which a revised kernel was installed - GRUB just wouldn't finish starting. It's attempt to start looked like this:
GRUB _ with the underscore blinking. Ctrl-alt-del (reboot) worked. Now, to make it clear, I solved that: after finding out that I could make a bootable GRUB CD, I made one from within a live-CD (c't Knoppicillin 5.2). I was then able to boot into Gentoo with it and reinstalled GRUB into the MBR. Don't you just love GRUB ;-)? What I *do* want to know, however, is how the hell the MBR could have been wrecked in the first place. All I did was install the new kernel/initramfs via $ genkernel --lvm2 --symlink --install all [1] , edit grub.conf appropriately and reboot. It worked flawlessly until now. Is Genkernel known to cause anything like this? For the record: I have a Windows partition, but never use it[3]. So I can't imagine how that might be related. In the event that it helps, here's a list of the packages that were updated to yesterday: =net-misc/rsync-2.6.9-r3 =media-sound/madplay-0.15.2b-r1 =media-libs/libdvdcss-1.2.9-r1 =sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r5 =app-misc/beagle-0.2.17 =app-arch/tar-1.18-r2 Also, just to understand the issue better, am I correct in assuming that GRUB *always* installs its stage1 into the MBR or a boot sector (unless you install it onto a floppy or CD)? I know it's a stupid question, but I want to be sure that it was in the MBR in the first place, in the event that there was a completely different cause. If it helps, this was originally a Sabayon 3.20 install. A lot has changed since the initial install, though ;-). Of course, it could just be random disk corruption, but I sure hope not. - SATA drive: Seagate ST3320620AS - Motherboard: Asus M2N-E This computer was assembled about 9 months ago. Any information appreciated, Marc Joliet [1] The --symlink option[2] is for my second GRUB CD, which has entries for the Symlinks. That way, I can always use those entries no matter the kernel version :-). [2] For those without Genkernel: --symlink creates two Symlinks to the newest kernels and optionally to the newest initramfs'. [3] I tested Windows and can boot into it after reinstalling GRUB. -- "Of course, I could switch back to Windows. At least there, if I have a problem, I don't suffer under the illusion that I could ever fix it." - Unknown (paraphrased)
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