Re: [BLUG] My Ubuntu/Linux bitch

well, the 'cat (hd0,0)/grub/grub.conf' got me about 300 ? marks and that was it.

i'll be googling all weekend long!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Shing-Shong Shei" <shei@cs.indiana.edu>
To: "Bloomington LINUX Users Group" <blug@cs.indiana.edu>
Sent: Friday, November 13, 2009 5:16:55 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [BLUG] My Ubuntu/Linux bitch

You need to give more information before I can help:

1) what's your partition layout? Do you have a separate /boot
partition? If so, do you know its partition number? In my case, I have
/boot in /dev/sda1 which corresponds to (hd0,0) in grub's term. So I
can do 'cat (hd0,0)/grub/grub.conf' at the 'GRUB>' prompt to check the
contents of the grub.conf.
2) if you can see the contents of grub.conf, there are two things to try:

a) enter 'configfile (hd0,0)/grub/grub.conf' at the 'GRUB>' prompt
and see if you can boot to the kernel specified in the grub.conf
b) if it works (booting to the system you just updated), then do
'/sbin/grub' and try to set up the MBA as in
grub> root (hd0,0)
grub> setup (hd0)
grub> exit

then reboot hoping the grub will work this time.

Good luck!
Shing-Shong

> happy? i did an update on my CentOS box today and now have a black screen with:
>
> GRUB>
>
> gonna have to google that one!
>
> ah, the adventures of noobiness...
>
>
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