Re: [SLE] must boot from suse 10 DVD

On 1/31/06, S Glasoe <srglasoe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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
>

Stage 2 is actually when the grub interpreter is loaded, a menu.lst
file is located and displayed, and the control is given to the user to
select the next action. Stage 1 (as it is limited only in 512 bites of
code) takes care to find and run Stage 2.

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Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)

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