Re: [SLE] must boot from suse 10 DVD

On Tuesday 31 January 2006 4:31 pm, S Glasoe wrote:
> 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...

> > 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.

> 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.
Fortunately, the menu.lst is a plain text file, but YaST can rebuild that
for you as well as rebuild the MBR.

One good test is to boot the installation CD, and boot the installed system.
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