Re: [CentOS] GRUB, and how do I loathe thee

2010-06-07 Thread MHR
On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Thanks, all, and with the help of the other admin, the system is up. What >> I had to do was linux rescue, the chroot /mnt/sysimage, grub-install >> /dev/sda >> >> What I didn't get until later was it also needed /boo

Re: [CentOS] GRUB, and how do I loathe thee

2010-06-07 Thread m . roth
> m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> Thanks, all, and with the help of the other admin, the system is up. >> What >> I had to do was linux rescue, the chroot /mnt/sysimage, grub-install >> /dev/sda >> >> What I didn't get until later was it also needed /boot/grub/grub.conf, >> and >> then >> ln -s /boot/gr

Re: [CentOS] GRUB, and how do I loathe thee

2010-06-07 Thread Bowie Bailey
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Thanks, all, and with the help of the other admin, the system is up. What > I had to do was linux rescue, the chroot /mnt/sysimage, grub-install > /dev/sda > > What I didn't get until later was it also needed /boot/grub/grub.conf, and > then > ln -s /boot/grub/grub.conf /b

Re: [CentOS] GRUB, and how do I loathe thee

2010-06-04 Thread Gary Greene
On 6/4/10 3:10 PM, "Dominik Zyla" wrote: > On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 03:06:30PM -0700, Gary Greene wrote: >> On 6/4/10 2:59 PM, "m.r...@5-cent.us" wrote: >>> Thanks, all, and with the help of the other admin, the system is up. What >>> I had to do was linux rescue, the chroot /mnt/sysimage, grub-in

Re: [CentOS] GRUB, and how do I loathe thee

2010-06-04 Thread Dominik Zyla
On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 03:06:30PM -0700, Gary Greene wrote: > On 6/4/10 2:59 PM, "m.r...@5-cent.us" wrote: > > Thanks, all, and with the help of the other admin, the system is up. What > > I had to do was linux rescue, the chroot /mnt/sysimage, grub-install > > /dev/sda > > > > What I didn't get

Re: [CentOS] GRUB, and how do I loathe thee

2010-06-04 Thread Gary Greene
On 6/4/10 2:59 PM, "m.r...@5-cent.us" wrote: > Thanks, all, and with the help of the other admin, the system is up. What > I had to do was linux rescue, the chroot /mnt/sysimage, grub-install > /dev/sda > > What I didn't get until later was it also needed /boot/grub/grub.conf, and > then > ln -s

Re: [CentOS] GRUB, and how do I loathe thee

2010-06-04 Thread m . roth
Thanks, all, and with the help of the other admin, the system is up. What I had to do was linux rescue, the chroot /mnt/sysimage, grub-install /dev/sda What I didn't get until later was it also needed /boot/grub/grub.conf, and then ln -s /boot/grub/grub.conf /boot/grub/menu.lst ln -s /boot/grub/gr

Re: [CentOS] GRUB, and how do I loathe thee

2010-06-04 Thread Dominik Zyla
On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 04:41:13PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 02:10:31PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > >> I just adore the install. Esp. of GRUB. > >> > > > Try `grub-install --root-directory=/path/to/your/new/system /dev/hda' (if > > there is on hda). > > Now,

Re: [CentOS] GRUB, and how do I loathe thee

2010-06-04 Thread Bowie Bailey
m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > I did the linux rescue, chroot (whoops, not chcon) to /mnt/sysimage, and > did grub-install --no-floppy /dev/sda > Now, when I reboot, it goes into the grub shell. Googling, and using the > hostile find, I set root (hd0,0), and then setup (hd0). It claims > everything is w

Re: [CentOS] GRUB, and how do I loathe thee

2010-06-04 Thread Jim Davis
Did you check the devices.map file? Last time I got to do the GRUB jig-o-despair was after adding disks to an array controller somehow turned /dev/sda into /dev/sdc... ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/cen

Re: [CentOS] GRUB, and how do I loathe thee

2010-06-04 Thread m . roth
> On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 02:10:31PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> I just adore the install. Esp. of GRUB. >> > Try `grub-install --root-directory=/path/to/your/new/system /dev/hda' (if > there is on hda). Now, is that root directory /, or /boot? mark

Re: [CentOS] GRUB, and how do I loathe thee

2010-06-04 Thread m . roth
> On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 02:10:31PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: >> I just adore the install. Esp. of GRUB. >> >> Does *anyone* who works on GRUB actually work in the real world, and not >> only on brand new machines? >> >> I just had happen at work what happened last fall on my home system: >>

Re: [CentOS] GRUB, and how do I loathe thee

2010-06-04 Thread Dominik Zyla
On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 02:10:31PM -0400, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > I just adore the install. Esp. of GRUB. > > Does *anyone* who works on GRUB actually work in the real world, and not > only on brand new machines? > > I just had happen at work what happened last fall on my home system: then, > I

Re: [CentOS] GRUB, and how do I loathe thee

2010-06-04 Thread Gary Greene
On 6/4/10 11:10 AM, "m.r...@5-cent.us" wrote: > I just adore the install. Esp. of GRUB. > > Does *anyone* who works on GRUB actually work in the real world, and not > only on brand new machines? > > I just had happen at work what happened last fall on my home system: then, > I had /dev/hda, and

[CentOS] GRUB, and how do I loathe thee

2010-06-04 Thread R P Herrold
a cross post -- how tacky On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, m.r...@5-cent.us wrote: > Does *anyone* who works on GRUB actually work in the real > world, and not only on brand new machines? certainly -- I had a data recovery a couple weeks ago where all I could reach on boot was the grub command prompt, a t

[CentOS] GRUB, and how do I loathe thee

2010-06-04 Thread m . roth
I just adore the install. Esp. of GRUB. Does *anyone* who works on GRUB actually work in the real world, and not only on brand new machines? I just had happen at work what happened last fall on my home system: then, I had /dev/hda, and was trying a clean install on a new SATA drive; right now, I'