Re: grub2 halts on kernel command

[Andi Meier]

Michael Evans wrote:
>> grub> kernel /vmlinuz
>>   [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x3400, size=0x3bef40]
>>
>> ..... then it hangs ...........
> 
> Perhaps the kernel you are trying to load is broken, of the wrong
> system (target) type, or requires arguments?
> 
> I suggest recovering via some kind of rescue cd and attempting to
> repair any potential issues inside of a chroot do your root
> filesystem.

Michael, thank you for your reply,

I am confident to assume that the Kernel is not broken (brand-new installation 
of Ubuntu 9.10). Well, I guess so.

What do you mean with "the wrong system type". AFAIK I have not specified any 
target system up to now, just (in the language of GRUB2)
"root" and "kernel" ...?


One issue could be that if I boot via SystemRescueDisk and look into /boot/grub 
of the /dev/md0 (software RAID1 device), I cannot find a
file stage1 - which BTW is what the SuperGrubDisk complains about if I choose 
to repair automatically.
Is this file /boot/grub/stage1 necessary?
My assumption is that: if the stage1 file would be there, the next step would 
be: load the kernel. Am I right?

Cheers,
Andi