From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from list by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.71) id 1RFZZZ-00008M-6Y for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 18:52:49 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:57935) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RFZZX-00008A-5w for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 18:52:48 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RFZZW-0007Gx-2m for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 18:52:47 -0400 Received: from mail-bw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.214.41]:37088) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RFZZV-0007FD-QI for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 18:52:46 -0400 Received: by bkbzu5 with SMTP id zu5so5659985bkb.0 for ; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:52:44 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type; bh=+lixI6U8fHs69TnhIHhb0/wpNz6eBrVXMncHkffqvPc=; b=JIeS5N0Ds4s2uZBeRYNbf13lour6MRalm7Q/PIHZJCUYhNtZY/7E15W/zHfNU1S1mr n8SWrPayBAu4WOBJ8Eq9VXrh78YprLzTf6ppMvScuSJcmk80I7YxD5zCLufBJDsetGsA XHB/hby3HqOZPuPDpIgOHZWKCP2sUhUNqOEeQ= Received: by 10.223.16.76 with SMTP id n12mr20800511faa.25.1318805564157; Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:52:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from debian.x201.phnet (gprs37.swisscom-mobile.ch. [193.247.250.37]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r16sm19911581fam.8.2011.10.16.15.52.42 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 16 Oct 2011 15:52:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4E9B6038.3060807@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:52:40 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?VmxhZGltaXIgJ8+GLWNvZGVyL3BoY29kZXInIFNlcmJpbmVua28=?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.23) Gecko/20111005 Iceowl/1.0b2 Icedove/3.1.15 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: grub-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: Resizing moving & deleting partitions References: <20111016224002.GB3402@pavo.local> In-Reply-To: <20111016224002.GB3402@pavo.local> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enig6FD12D87DCA2FB4982D098D3" X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 209.85.214.41 X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2011 22:52:48 -0000 This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enig6FD12D87DCA2FB4982D098D3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 17.10.2011 00:40, Chris Jones wrote: > Lately, I had to increase the size of the partition where grub-pc is > managed. Upon rebooting, the grub menu had become inaccessible, all > I could see was an "Error: file not found". As far as I can remember, > there was also a shell-like prompt with "rescue" or "grub rescue" > followed by the greater than ">" sign but I wasn't able to make much of= > that. > Unless the UUID was changed (in which case the partitioning tool is to blame), number of /boot was changed, embed area was affected or it was a blocklist install to begin with (in which case you've been warned) it shouldn't happen. If you can provide a way to recreate it on loopback (in preference a script), please file a bug report. Using UUIDs to locate /boot is currently done only on cross-disk installs as it eats valuable embedding space. > Backing up everything and reinstalling on top of LVM would probably mak= e > it easier to move stuff around, but since grub.cfg config files appear > to point to bootable partitions via their ordinal numbers - i.e. msdos3= , > msdos7, etc. - I doubt this would make much difference (?). Read better. grub.cfg uses UUIDs, partition ids are only a fallback. > Will UEFI help solve the catch22 situation where you need to boot > a given system to fix a broken boot loader? Nope. UEFI is useless in most senses. Its only advantage is that you don't need embedding area to take special care of. --=20 Regards Vladimir '=CF=86-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko --------------enig6FD12D87DCA2FB4982D098D3 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREKAAYFAk6bYDgACgkQNak7dOguQgntCgD5AQsM23OQZVJ2onAuqdSkzYqa rJK2KZkBPys1VIZNSBsBAISCJQ9tGG3SdBv/xHrCdKtaK6JW9dNF7YUnV2Zbr40U =uCa6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enig6FD12D87DCA2FB4982D098D3--