On 10/21/2010 06:31 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2010/10/21 17:59 (GMT-0700) Bruce Ferrell composed:
OK, I got a kernel update and it trashed the boot loader leaving in a grub prompt.
SO, since the system repair option was removed because "about the only thing it was used for was to fix the boot loader", how do I fix it? I really don't want to re-install.
The grub menu is just a multiple choice script from which Grub executes commands according to your selection. You can boot from the Grub prompt, not just install or update Grub.
http://orgs.man.ac.uk/documentation/grub/grub_4.html#SEC14
Once booted, compare /boot/grub/menu.lst with /boot/grub/menu.lst.old and see what the upgrade screwed up, and fix with your favorite text editor. If you can't tell yourself, share with the list a diff -u of the two files, and the output of fdisk -l.
Ahhhh... Helpful. Thanks for passing me some clues. I started my linux career with Lilo... much simpler -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org