Re: [SLE] must boot from suse 10 DVD

On Tuesday 31 January 2006 1:17 pm, Sunny wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
> Svetoslav Milenov (Sunny)

Thank you Anders and Sunny. I knew if I posted "almost correct" info we on
the list would get the right stuff. I was in a hurry and didn't think
through the whole grub process.

Maybe it is just /boot/grub/menu.lst that is corrupted. I would advocate
replacing, from a known good backup, the whole /boot directory.

Stan

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