Re: grub fails to boot, prints only a single dot

[Alex Regan]

Hi,

> > > > After adding the two new disks, the system failed to boot. No grub boot
> > > > menu
> > > > or anything. Just a single dot then a newline, where the system would sit
> > > > there until I eventually had to hard reset it to boot.
>
> Do you see word GRUB printed before dot?

No, just a dot.

> > > Are you sure system does not try to boot from new disks?
> >
> >
> > I'm pretty sure I've cycled through all four disks in the BIOS boot order,
> > although it's possible. It's somewhat difficult because all four disks are
> > identical and the BIOS doesn't provide a way to distinguish one from the
> > other.
> >
> > I've also even tried to rearrange the disks physically by rearranging the
> > disk trays in the chassis...
> >
> > I've also installed grub on all four disks. Wouldn't this serve to direct
> > the boot information to the disks with /boot and the real root?
>
> Well, GRUB prints dots when it loads parts of core.img from disk.
> Single dot would imply single extent which is OK. Then it jumps to it.
> Now if for whatever reasons it got garbage from disk. of course
> attempt to execute it will be unsuccessful.
>
> Could you boot any live media, run
> https://github.com/arvidjaar/bootinfoscript/raw/master/bootinfoscript
> and send result to me?

The system is running now from a sysrescue CDROM and booted to the 
system disk. I've run the script and included the results here:

http://pastebin.com/Q1A815Y7

Thanks,
Alex