https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428127 User sboyce@blueyonder.co.uk added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428127#c26 --- Comment #26 from Sid Boyce <sboyce@blueyonder.co.uk> 2008-09-25 09:00:36 MDT --- Got this procedure from a guy on the factory mailing list to work with one box, but no such luck with a second one using 0.97-147. The one for which it worked, I used zypper dup initially and the reboot failed, so I did a fresh install without reformatting the partitions. After the install failure, I scp'd 0.97-147 across from another box, installed it and the procedure worked. I think I shall have to google on how to do an install of grub having removed the old one.
Boot the system from a DVD in rescue mode, login as root (no password) mount<root_partition> /mnt mount<boot_partition> /mnt/boot (if applicable) mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc mount --bind /sys /mnt/sys mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev chroot /mnt /bin/bash Install an old grub from DVD or if you can, from the old SL-OSS-Factory then run: grub</etc/grub.conf exit umount /mnt/dev umount /mnt/sys umount /mnt/proc umount /mnt/boot (if applicable) umount /mnt
reboot and hopefully you will be back in production.
I was looking at the buildservice earlier and it looks like>1000 i586 packages have to build before then next sync will happen for i586 (it looks like>3000 x86_64 have to still build, so if you waiting for x86_64 grub, it will be an even longer wait)
Thanks, that fixed the problem on this x86_64 box, so I rebooted another and went through the same process, I had installed grub-0.97-147 before rebooting the DVD to Rescue. On that x86_64 box it hangs with GRUB Loading stage1.5 GRUB loading, please wait ..... They ought to put out an emergency package that would solve the problem. Tried both with --force-lba and without. # o /etc/grub.conf setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 --force-lba (hd0) (hd0,0) quit I just have /dev/sda (500GB) with / (XFS) and a swap partition. Everything was previously OK with the latest factory before I upgraded to 11.1 Beta1 using zypper dup. Except for stage2, all other stages dated 7th. Sept. device.map is fine. Looks like I shall have to do a fresh grub install. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.