From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1IcUIm-0001z9-HB for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:03:48 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IcUIk-0001wS-Mc for grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:03:46 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IcUIh-0001sY-Q4 for Grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:03:46 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IcUIh-0001sH-Ir for Grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:03:43 -0400 Received: from mail.bestsolution.at ([81.16.98.99]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IcUIg-00034m-Vb for Grub-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 01 Oct 2007 19:03:43 -0400 Received: from localhost (ogmios.bestsolution.at [81.16.98.100]) by mail.bestsolution.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id A57EA46035C for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 01:03:38 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: BestSolution.at amavisd-new at bestsolution.at Received: from mail.bestsolution.at ([81.16.98.97]) by localhost (ogmios.bestsolution.at [81.16.98.100]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with LMTP id KizhB-qioKtS for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 01:03:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.100.10] (heimdall.bestsolution.at [81.16.98.98]) by mail.bestsolution.at (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7C8D460308 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 01:03:30 +0200 (CEST) From: Udo Rader To: Grub-devel@gnu.org Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-WEeOHeDHVJKuBG6DsAzg" Organization: BestSolution.at EDV Systemaus GmbH Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:03:22 +0200 Message-Id: <1191279802.3351.30.camel@athene.bestsolution.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.0-2mdv2008.0 X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) Cc: Subject: a FAQ that probably isn't that trivial to answer ... X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:03:47 -0000 --=-WEeOHeDHVJKuBG6DsAzg Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, for various reasons I decided to give grub2 a try and now I am caught in the "my system doesn't boot" trap. The problem is probably a bit more complex then it seems at first hand, because my system doesn't even start into grub at all but "freezes" somewhere between hard disk detection and starting up grub. Absolutely no message is displayed after the POST is complete. The only chance I can currently somewhat revive my system is by unplugging the hard drive before powering up the system, inserting some kind of boot CD (in my case a debian etch installation CD), plug in the hard drive and then boot into rescue mode. In rescue mode I see the the hard drive itself (and the data on it) is completely OK and so after many hours of trying I am completely lost ... Things were working absolutely OK before I tried to install grub2. Yet now, reinstalling whatever bootloader does not bring my system back into normal booting again. So far I have tried to reinstall grub legacy and even lilo, but all without success. grub-install/update-grub gives this: ------CUT------ % grub-install --recheck /dev/sda Installation finished. No error reported. This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect, fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'. (hd0) /dev/sda % % update-grub Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub Testing for an existing GRUB grub.cfg file ... found: /boot/grub/grub.cfg Searching for splash image ... found: /boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz Found kernel: /vmlinuz-2.6.22-12-generic Found kernel: /memtest86+.bin Updating /boot/grub/grub.cfg ... done ------CUT------ The hints on http://grub.enbug.org/GettingStarted also did not bring me anywhere, so any ideas are greatly appreciated ... If my box hadn't worked without problems before, I would consider a firmware issue, but I can hardly believe that to be the case ... --=20 Udo Rader bestsolution.at EDV Systemhaus GmbH http://www.bestsolution.at --=-WEeOHeDHVJKuBG6DsAzg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBHAXy3uhFd84GLxP8RAgjvAJ4h3lr0rJLN7AEQU/OtNK+oFbvOvACfWtD5 vBXfkoxUOzpQ6RzE70gjbn0= =QFOq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-WEeOHeDHVJKuBG6DsAzg--