Hello, anyone has an idea why grub itself fails to switch from rescue to normal mode, but just `insmod normal; normal' does work?
For me this doestn't make any sense at all. If you want to see the initial report: http://bugs.debian.org/495049 -------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht -------- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > An: Felix Zielcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Kopie: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Betreff: Re: Bug#495049: grub-pc: does not boot because module > "normal" is not loaded > Datum: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:13:15 -0700 > > On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:20:53 +0200 > Felix Zielcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > After running "grub-install" and rebooting, grub drops into the > > > "grub rescue>" prompt. The "pc", "lvm", and "ext2" modules are loaded, > > > "ls" finds the root volume, and the variable "root" is set > > > appropriately. > > > > Only the variable root or the prefix too? > > Both. > > > Are sure that if you boot you only type > > > > insmod normal > > normal > > > > and then the menu shows? i.e. nothing before like set prefix or set > > root? > > Only those two commands. Nothing else. > > > That would be very weird if GRUB set it's variables right, but still > > fails to load grub.cfg by it's own. > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ strings /boot/grub/core.img|grep normal > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ > > # strings /boot/grub/normal.mod | grep grub.cfg > %s/grub.cfg > # > > The reason it doesn't load grub.cfg is because that filename is only found > in the "normal" module, which as I said, doesn't get loaded automatically, > but is located without problem with the "insmod" command. > > > I think that core.img doestn't contain the string `normal' is just well > > normal, grub2 works fine for me, but I don't have LVM or RAID ;) > > I don't know how the "normal" module is supposed to get loaded, but it's > clear that it IS supposed to, and that it isn't happening here. > > I don't know if the problem is related to lvm, or if it's specific to AMD64, > or what. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
