Re: Help with Grub2

[BandiPat <magicpage91@earthlink.net>]

Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> 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.
  > _______________________________________________

Ok, thanks for the suggestion and I do wish it had been that easy, but I 
still get the grub rescue prompt only.  If I try to do "insmod normal", 
I get "error:  out of partition".

Here is my lsmod results:
_chain      1
biodisk         1
pc          1
xfs         1
fshelp      1

That appears to be getting most of the needed modules, but again, I'm 
new to this, so not sure.  I only used "grub-install /dev/sda" and then 
did "update-grub /dev/sda" to get my grub.cfg file.  All that seems to 
produce good results, no error messages.  One time I did grub-install 
wrong and got an error message about the core.img.  I think that was 
"grub-install "(hd0,2)", which give me that error, but using /dev/sda 
worked as it should.

Any other info you need, I'll try to supply, but I continue to remain 
baffled.  :-\

Thanks,
Pat