Re: GRUB-1.96 won't boot, boots into rescue prompt

[Jelle Geerts]

Nice, I'll remember this for future debugging :)
As I installed Arch now, everything works as normal again.

Thank you.

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Pavel Roskin <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 11:00 +0100, Jelle Geerts wrote:
>
>  > Phew, I uninstalled Gentoo and reinstalled Arch so I can't remember
>  > for sure what modules were listed :(
>  > I can remember 'ext2' was loaded.
>
>  Interesting.  If some modules were loaded, then disk access was working
>  initially.  But it stopped working at some point.  Maybe it was the
>  "ata" module?  It should not be loaded by default, but maybe it was
>  loaded for some reason.
>
>
>  > Also, 'insmod normal' resulted in the same "error: unknown device" error.
>
>  That's not surprising considering that no devices can be accessed.
>
>  I normally verify the GRUB installation by running this as root:
>
>  qemu -hda /dev/sda
>
>  where /dev/sda is the bootable hard drive.  It should be safe if you
>  don't try to boot anything.  It's even possible to install GRUB 2, test
>  it with qemu and then install GRUB 1 without having to reboot.
>
>  Checking with qemu can separate BIOS issues from issues with GRUB 2
>  itself (wrong module dependencies) and grub.cfg (loading "ata" module).
>
>  --
>  Regards,
>  Pavel Roskin
>
>
>
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