Topic: URGENT HELP NEEDED - Last upgrade causes in GRUB ERROR!

[SchulzStefan]

Running SME 7.1.2 Launched the last update with yum update:

- libgcc.i386 3.4.6-3.1
- tzdata.noarch 2007c-1.el4
- gnupg.i386 1.2.6-9
- libstdc++.i386 3.4.6-3.1

Seemed working fine - no errors during upgrade process. Signal-event post-upgrade. Signal event reboot.

After reboot - system hangs, displaying on the whole screen only

GRUB GRUB GRUB....

The hardware disk-setup is two identical disks - both running as masters, (primary and secondary) configured. One disk seems to be corrupt - the other can be accessed with a live-cd.

I already changed the connectors of the disks - didn't help. Not able to boot - same error as discribed above.

ANYONE THERE WITH HELP?

stefan

[byte]

After reboot - system hangs, displaying on the whole screen only

GRUB GRUB GRUB....

The hardware disk-setup is two identical disks - both running as masters, (primary and secondary) configured. One disk seems to be corrupt - the other can be accessed with a live-cd.

Please report bugs and potential bugs in the bug tracker. Thanks!

[SchulzStefan]

Please report bugs and potential bugs in the bug tracker. Thanks!

Bug #2679 opened!

Anyway - I would like to know how to get back on the road. There are a few users who want to work tomorrow!

So, if someone could guide me to get the box back online, would be really nice!

stefan

[haymann]

Maybe someone that knows more can tell you if this post will help you. I know that it got me out of a jam when I whacked GRUB somehow...
Ryan

[SchulzStefan]

Ryan,

thank you for your reply! Right now, I'm not back on the way. I try to make clear, what happened:

The box had two IDE hard-disks and one cd-rom. The disks had been set up as primary and secondary masters. One disk crashed. The other disk is fine. All data on this drive is o.k. I checked this with sme rescue.

I changed the connectors from the board and took the crashed disk out of the machine. Now there's only one disk in the machine, connected to the board as first IDE hard-drive. When I try to boot now - the system still hangs displaying on the whole screen.

GRUB GRUB GRUB....

In my understanding I have right now a system with just *ONE* IDE harddisk. It should be possible to boot from this disk. All data on this disk seems to be o.k.

Question:

- What changes are need in the mtab (and fstab?)
- How can grub be set up or installed to boot from this disk?

Can anyone give me advice?

stefan

[ldkeen]

Stefan,
Did you read the whole of the post - there are two pages.
basically
Boot SME Rescue
chroot /mnt/sysimage
edit /etc/mtab
look for the line that says /boot /dev/md1 and change /dev/md1 to /dev/hda1
grub-install /dev/hda
then wait - grub-install takes a long time to run
Lloyd

[SchulzStefan]

Lloyd,

thank you for your reply. Did this already

Boot SME Rescue
chroot /mnt/sysimage
edit /etc/mtab
look for the line that says /boot /dev/md1 and change /dev/md1 to /dev/hda1
grub-install /dev/hda

Grub was ready with a finger snip. No errors reported. Told me, that the new device map is

- (fd0)    /dev/fd0
- (hd0)   /dev/hda
- (hd1)   /dev/hdc

I checked this file, it was written out correctly. But booting the machine causes in the same error as already reported.

Any more ideas?

stefan