Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
BandiPat wrote:
Compiled and installed grub2. Remove LILO from MBR. Ran grub-install
/dev/sda. Run grub-setup /dev/sda. Ran update-grub to let it create a
grub.cfg file. So far, so good and checking everything, it all looks
great according to the instructions I have been able to find. By the
way, I have done a lot of researching these past 2 days! That's how I
came to find this mail list, but wanted to wait to finish my testing
before using it.
you should only need to use grub-install and update-grub (or grub-mkconfig)
Running grub-setup after grub-install without matching arguments given
by grub-install to grub-setup it can create non-working setup.
So commands needed are:
grub-install
update-grub (or grub-mkconfig, or manually create grub.cfg)
Now if you get stuck to rescue console you probably want to start
loading normal mode first (insmod normal.mod) and required modules
needed for booting. I think we should write something about rescue
console to wiki.
Here is what probably happened:
When you issues grub-setup manually you probably forgot to specify
filesystems and such so grub cannot load natively from MBR your system.
As grub-setup is advanced tool it should not be used manually, please
try with only grub-install and see if it help.
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Ok, thanks for the suggestion and I do wish it had been that easy, but I
still get the grub rescue prompt only. If I try to do "insmod normal",
I get "error: out of partition".
Here is my lsmod results:
_chain 1
biodisk 1
pc 1
xfs 1
fshelp 1
That appears to be getting most of the needed modules, but again, I'm
new to this, so not sure. I only used "grub-install /dev/sda" and then
did "update-grub /dev/sda" to get my grub.cfg file. All that seems to
produce good results, no error messages. One time I did grub-install
wrong and got an error message about the core.img. I think that was
"grub-install "(hd0,2)", which give me that error, but using /dev/sda
worked as it should.
Any other info you need, I'll try to supply, but I continue to remain
baffled. :-\
Thanks,
Pat
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