Re: Help with Grub2

["Vesa Jääskeläinen" <chaac@nic.fi>]

BandiPat wrote:
> Compiled and installed grub2.  Remove LILO from MBR.  Ran grub-install
> /dev/sda.  Run grub-setup /dev/sda.  Ran update-grub to let it create a
> grub.cfg file.  So far, so good and checking everything, it all looks
> great according to the instructions I have been able to find.  By the
> way, I have done a lot of researching these past 2 days!  That's how I
> came to find this mail list, but wanted to wait to finish my testing
> before using it.

you should only need to use grub-install and update-grub (or grub-mkconfig)

Running grub-setup after grub-install without matching arguments given
by grub-install to grub-setup it can create non-working setup.

So commands needed are:

grub-install
update-grub (or grub-mkconfig, or manually create grub.cfg)

Now if you get stuck to rescue console you probably want to start
loading normal mode first (insmod normal.mod) and required modules
needed for booting. I think we should write something about rescue
console to wiki.

Here is what probably happened:

When you issues grub-setup manually you probably forgot to specify
filesystems and such so grub cannot load natively from MBR your system.

As grub-setup is advanced tool it should not be used manually, please
try with only grub-install and see if it help.