Re: a FAQ that probably isn't that trivial to answer ...

[Udo Rader]

        On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 09:11 -0500, Schaefer, Heath wrote:
> I read your message in the grub digest...quite an interesting problem.
> I don’t know of a fix yet but I’ll be on the lookout. 
> 
>  
> 
> How many hard drives are in this system?
> 
> What boot loader was on it before? (from your message it seems like
> grub legacy.)
> 
> Did you compile grub2 yourself? Do you know what kind of
> options/modules were included? Was it the same or similar to your
> previous grub?

Thanks for your reply,

there is one drive (SATA-150) in this system (a laptop).

Before things went wrong I was using the grub legacy coming with ubuntu
gutsy (0.97-29) and I played with the grub2 coming from ubuntu as well
(grub2_1.95).

About the modules I'll have to check how ubuntu compiles the packages.

What I did now however was to repartition & reformat the disk and I can
finally boot the beast again :-)

Before I did so, I backed up the MBR and had the hope that I could
reproduce the freeze again, but instead the system was booting as
well ...

Yet what I see is that the restored partition table is different from
the one I originally had (all logical partitions are lost now) ...

So can it be that grub2 is doing some magic with the partition table?

> I am somewhat new to GRUB but I’ll help where I can.

Thanks anyhow :-)

-- 
Udo Rader

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