Re: Sometimes doesn't boot & a nice debian background.

[Franklin PIAT]

On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 13:10 +0530, shirish wrote:
>    First of all some good news, With some updates grub2 (grub 1.96+
> 20080203-1)  now found a debian background so it looks much much
> cooler.
> 
> 1. Dunno from where it found it but its cool. Can anyone tell me where
> it is & how to have more there so I can change the background at will
> & still have more options?
Currently, the filename is "hardcoded" in /etc/grub.d/05_debian_theme
(that file is considered conffile in debian, so you will be prompt for
action on upgrade).

> 2. Sometimes grub2 doesn't boot. I get something about it not able to
> mount. Of course I will write the contents the next time this happens,
> it does retry after 5 seconds or so but doesn't happen. Is there a log
> that grub keeps somewhere of unsuccessful attempts?

Does your menu has something like :
        linux   (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-686 root=/dev/sda2 ro 
        initrd  (hd0,2)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-5-686
where "root=" is defined correctly ? (YMMV)

(You should be able to recover using any post Debian/Etch CD's recover
option, then update-grub  from the shell)