grub hangs after update
Brian Gaynor
briang at pmccorp.com
Wed Jan 28 17:13:36 UTC 2009
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 08:04 -0500, Mark C. Allman wrote:
> I saw the same thing about a week ago. The problem was the master boot
> record (MBR). This is how I fixed it (note that I backed everything up
> one more time before doing this).
>
> <disclaimer>Please note that this rebuilds the MBR so it's not to be
> tried without understanding what you're doing</disclaimer>
>
> 1. Boot from a rescue disk to "repair" the system.
> 2. Let the start-up process find and mount your filesystem.
> 3. Chroot to /mnt/sysimage
> 4. Look at /etc/grub.conf to both be sure it looked OK and to
> look for the "root (hd0,0)" or "root (hd0,1)" or whatever line.
> 5. Run "grub"
> 5a. type in "root (hd0,0)", which is what I found in grub.conf
> 5b. type "setup (hd0)"
> 6. Rebooted the system and it all started up.
>
> Take a look at the page:
> http://www.whoopis.com/howtos/howto_restore_mbr_grub.php
>
I saw it as well on a Dell M65 laptop. I did the same thing as Mark
suggest, used rescue mode to restore grub and everything has been fine
since. Did not see anything during the upgrade to suggest I there was a
problem.
Brian
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