Bug 112851 – GRUB 0.97-r2 hangs upon boot with only GRUB written on the screen

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

[Description Simonas Leleiva 2005-11-17 11:18:40 UTC]

After doing emerge-webrsync (today-11/17/2005) and performing emerge --update
world --deep and restarting system (I did not see, what was written during
GRUB's installation), after booting from ntldr (WinXP) residing in MBR into
/dev/hda4 (ext2 - gentoo's boot part), a word GRUB appears on screen and system
halts

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Get GRUB 0.97-r2
2.Restart your system

[Comment 1 Simonas Leleiva 2005-11-17 11:30:08 UTC]

I can access all my gentoo partitions and files via Windows OS, thus you can
freely ask me for any supplemential info.

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2005-11-17 11:45:59 UTC]

you prob have to install grub to your mbr and /boot yourself

do the normal 'root / setup' stuff from `grub` as you did when first
installing Gentoo and see if that fixes things

[Comment 3 Simonas Leleiva 2005-11-17 12:23:02 UTC]

But everything worked fine before as not in mbr. I'd like a backwards
compatibility. Thanks.

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2005-11-17 13:00:29 UTC]

no idea what you're talking about

did resetting the mbr/stage files work or not ?

[Comment 5 Simonas Leleiva 2005-11-18 12:12:41 UTC]

It looks like new grub has rewritten /dev/hda4 boot record, and thus I forgot to
dd it into c:\gentoo.sec..
However, GRUB booted ONLY after I did additional grub> setup (hd0,3)
(grub-install /dev/hda4 didn't work, complaining about some missing /proc/usb
devices (this was on a chrooted fs, as installation manual told)) and dding a
fresh gentoo.sec (the one, which was generated by former emerge was corrupted).
Thus, sorry to bother you, as everything works now, it just remains as FYI..