From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Cc: Jelle Geerts <jellegeerts@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: GRUB-1.96 won't boot, boots into rescue prompt
Date: Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:58:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1205107130.2142.10.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bf2cff050803091607p6a50d05aiad48f77280e3f15a@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 00:07 +0100, Jelle Geerts wrote:
> After installing Gentoo + GRUB 1.96 and rebooting; I get a
> "grub rescue>" prompt. I've ran `grub-install /dev/sda' and
> `update-grub'.
>
> I had to modify `/etc/grub.d/10_linux' in order to let it find
> `/boot/kernel-2.6.23-gentoo-r9'. I don't think that this should
> matter since `update-grub' displayed a message that Linux was
> found (and the exact kernel filename matched the one I wanted).
>
> Now some debugging information. In the "grub rescue>" prompt,
> `insmod normal' resulted in `error: unknown device'.
>
> `set' returned:
> prefix=(hd0,2)/boot/grub
> root=hd0,2
Try the "ls" command without arguments. It will show the available
drives.
--
Regards,
Pavel Roskin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-09 23:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-09 23:07 GRUB-1.96 won't boot, boots into rescue prompt Jelle Geerts
2008-03-09 23:58 ` Pavel Roskin [this message]
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2008-03-10 3:49 Jelle Geerts
2008-03-10 14:20 ` Robert Millan
2008-03-11 10:00 ` Jelle Geerts
2008-03-11 15:57 ` Pavel Roskin
2008-03-11 21:16 ` Jelle Geerts
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