From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JZ6qx-0000Bk-RT for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:57:23 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZ6qv-0000Aq-R1 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:57:21 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JZ6qt-00008s-47 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:57:21 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JZ6qs-00008o-QY for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:57:18 -0400 Received: from c60.cesmail.net ([216.154.195.49]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JZ6qs-0007hr-Nt for grub-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:57:18 -0400 Received: from unknown (HELO relay.cesmail.net) ([192.168.1.81]) by c60.cesmail.net with ESMTP; 11 Mar 2008 11:57:16 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.21] (static-72-92-88-10.phlapa.fios.verizon.net [72.92.88.10]) by relay.cesmail.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6721C619058; Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:57:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Pavel Roskin To: The development of GRUB 2 , Jelle Geerts In-Reply-To: References: <20080310142019.GB2829@thorin> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:57:15 -0400 Message-Id: <1205251035.7067.12.camel@dv> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 (2.12.3-3.fc8) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Cc: Subject: Re: GRUB-1.96 won't boot, boots into rescue prompt 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: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:57:22 -0000 On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 11:00 +0100, Jelle Geerts wrote: > Phew, I uninstalled Gentoo and reinstalled Arch so I can't remember > for sure what modules were listed :( > I can remember 'ext2' was loaded. Interesting. If some modules were loaded, then disk access was working initially. But it stopped working at some point. Maybe it was the "ata" module? It should not be loaded by default, but maybe it was loaded for some reason. > Also, 'insmod normal' resulted in the same "error: unknown device" error. That's not surprising considering that no devices can be accessed. I normally verify the GRUB installation by running this as root: qemu -hda /dev/sda where /dev/sda is the bootable hard drive. It should be safe if you don't try to boot anything. It's even possible to install GRUB 2, test it with qemu and then install GRUB 1 without having to reboot. Checking with qemu can separate BIOS issues from issues with GRUB 2 itself (wrong module dependencies) and grub.cfg (loading "ata" module). -- Regards, Pavel Roskin