[clug] grub question

Eyal Lebedinsky eyal at eyal.emu.id.au
Sun Jun 14 02:46:32 GMT 2009


Thanks Chris, it now boots clean.

Eyal

Chris Smart wrote:
> 2009/6/14 Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal at eyal.emu.id.au>:
>> How do I restore the normal behaviour where the system does not enter a grub
>> prompt?
> 
> When booted up to a working system, re-install GRUB to the Master Boot Record.
> 
> su -
> grub
> root (hd0,0)
> setup (hd0)
> 
> This should detect whether you have a menu.lst or grub.conf so it
> shouldn't matter. GRUB is zero based, so hd0,0 specifies the first
> hard drive and first partition (i.e. /dev/sda1). If that's not where
> your /boot partition/directory is then replace with the correct value.
> 
> Setup (hd0) installs it to the MBR. This is usually what you want on a
> normal PC system.
> 
> -c


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Eyal Lebedinsky	(eyal at eyal.emu.id.au)


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