Re: [SLE] must boot from suse 10 DVD

On Tuesday 31 January 2006 9:16 am, Per Jessen wrote:
> BandiPat wrote:
> > On Tuesday 31 January 2006 02:05, Per Jessen wrote:
> >> Gracia M. Littauer wrote:
> >> > We reinstalled the kernel, rewrote mbr, checked the bios, checked
> >> > logs, checked /etc/fstab, checked my sanity!
> >>
> >> Reinstall the boot-loader. With lilo this is simply accomplished by
> >> entering "lilo", I don't know about grub.
> >>
> >>
> >> /Per Jessen, Zürich
> >
> > ===========
> > Oops, looks like she didn't mention the boot-loader specifically, but
> > it's been done. Next guess?
> >
> > This one is a true mystery readers, I'm hoping it can be solved!
>
> Assuming the harddisk is in fact fine, something's got to be wrong in
> the bootloading. I don't know what grub stage 2 is, but it doesn't
> sound like we've started loading the kernel yet? And the system is
> bootable as long as it's booted with the DVD first.
> I probably can't help much more 'coz I use only lilo myself.
>
>
> /Per Jessen, Zürich

GRUB stage 2 is when it starts looking for the initrd and kernel, etc. Stage
1 is the MBR portion. So it seems like the drive's MBR is OK but
maybe /boot/grub has corruption? Or the initrd or kernel is trashed there?
Possibly the device map...

If there is a back-up of /boot then we could restore that when booted from
the DVD rescue system...

Stan

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