Peter Ruskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 07 May 2008, »Q« wrote: > > Earlier today, I emerged grub-0.97-r5 on my x86 laptop, replacing > > 0.97-r4. I didn't run grub and didn't expect anything to be done > > to my boot partition. Now I've read > > <http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218599>, and I suspect my > > current problem has to do with that, though I don't recall > > anything in grub.conf that would lead to trouble. > > > > I can't access the boot partition right now, and I'm posting this > > in hopes of pointers for what to look at once I get the chance to > > boot from a livecd. > > > > When I try to boot, the word GRUB gets written to the screen over > > and over and over, filling the screen. Pressing keys, AFAICT so > > far, doesn't stop this. The screen is just filled with "GRUB", > > and I think it's an ongoing thing because of a little flicker at > > the bottom right. > > When you emerged grub-0.97-r5, this was displayed on your console: > WARN: postinst > *** IMPORTANT NOTE: you must run grub and install > the new version's stage1 to your MBR. Until you do, > stage1 and stage2 will still be the old version, but > later stages will be the new version, which could > cause problems such as an unbootable system.
Thanks. I had assumed (d'oh!) that I could wait and read the elog if I ever decided to install the new grub to my boot partition. I'm not so happy with the boot partition being mounted and screwed with by the ebuild, especially given I was using a grub from Fedora, not Gentoo. Now I've got DONT_MOUNT_BOOT="yes" in make.conf, so I should never have this kind of problem again. Once I booted a livecd, running the setup command within grub fixed the problem. Then once I booted Gentoo, I did it again, to get whatever goodness is in this latest revision. > To make life easier for situations like this, you could install grub > on a floppy. Even if I had a floppy drive, I'm not sure portage wouldn't find the floppy and overwrite it. ;) I usually have a livecd or two in my bag, but of course not when I most need one. -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
