From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1LTXzW-0000zM-6m for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 03:47:46 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LTXzU-0000zH-Eb for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 03:47:44 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LTXzS-0000z5-3v for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 03:47:44 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53717 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LTXzR-0000z2-U3 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 03:47:41 -0500 Received: from mta-out.inet.fi ([195.156.147.13]:52869 helo=jenni2.inet.fi) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LTXzR-0004aZ-AN for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 01 Feb 2009 03:47:41 -0500 Received: from [192.168.1.102] (84.248.105.254) by jenni2.inet.fi (8.5.014) id 48FC5A88047C9EE4 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 1 Feb 2009 10:47:39 +0200 Message-ID: <498561A1.4090407@nic.fi> Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 10:47:29 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmVzYSBKw6TDpHNrZWzDpGluZW4=?= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (Windows/20081209) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <498525F5.7060609@earthlink.net> In-Reply-To: <498525F5.7060609@earthlink.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Subject: Re: Help with Grub2 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: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:47:44 -0000 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.