[clug] Grub trouble

[Mike Carden]

Good afternoon.

We have some Shuttle XPC SN25 machines and rather nice they are too.
They dual boot Kubuntu and XP with GRUB handling bootloader duties.

Since we have had a few SATA drive failures, we decided to keep an
image on hand to resurrect any machines after a hard drive incident.

So I made a boot CD with network drivers and Symantec Ghost 8 on it
(ghost is already used for drive imaging here). I carefully
handcrafted a nice SN25 machine with its Linux and Windows partitions
and all the apps and config we need. I booted it with my new boot CD
and slurped a drive image across the network to one of our RAIDs.

Next, up with a Shuttle SN25 ready for imaging, boot from the CD and
fire up Ghost. Restore the image from the network and all goes well.
Reboot the box and...

A screen full of GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB GRUB. And nothing else.

I can boot with a Kubuntu live CD and mount /dev/sda2 where the grub
stuff in /boot *looks* okay, but I feel I am missing the point here.

The Shuttle boxes are identical (as far as I can tell) yet the
restored image has GRUB issues. I have tried Google and the GRUB wiki
and while I see that this is a pretty common failure mode for GRUB, I
can't see a cause or solution that relates to my situation.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
MC