Something Broke My Grub

Seann Clark nombrandue at tsukinokage.net
Wed Mar 4 19:59:54 UTC 2009


Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Mar 2009 19:20:50 +0000, Dave wrote:
>
>   
>> An hour ago I had a fully functioning machine. Now I just get the word
>> "GRUB" in the top left of the screen. Something has gone wrong in the
>> last hour or so.
>>     
>
> Has happened to many people before:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/450143
>  
>   
>> Here's what I did.
>>     
>
> You installed a "kernel" update, which runs /sbin/new-kernel-pkg
> which in turn reinstalls GRUB via grubby. The kernel package is
> not the culprit, however. Something at run-time has changed your
> system environment in a way that confused the GRUB installation.
> How exactly remains to be found out.
>
>   
>> Has anyone else seen anything like this? And, more importantly, does
>> anyone have any suggestions of ways to fix it?
>>     
>
> You need to reinstall GRUB just once more. Use rescue mode,
> for example. I think above bz ticket gives hints.
>
>   
Just to chime in, That advice is great 99% of the time, if that doesn't 
work, try SuberGrubDisk to rescue grub. A similar thing happened to me a 
while ago and I tried that a few times, but still had issues. I don't 
think you will need to do this, since my problem was impacted more by 
the change to the pata driver setup (my pata drives went from hd* to sd* 
and borked my systems a little) but it is a good tool to have for that 
rare just in case that the rescue mode doesn't work.


~Seann

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