[lug] Grub question

Lee Woodworth blug-mail at duboulder.com
Fri Nov 10 10:14:56 MST 2006


Ken Weinert wrote:
> Well, I'm not sure how I did it, or what exactly I did, but grub is sort
> of non-working right now.
> 
> When I boot, instead of the nice menu of choices, grub goes to its
> command line.
> 
> I can then type in:
> 
> kernel /vmlinuz-.....
> boot
> 
> and all is well.  Tab expansion does the right thing and all, but it's a
> bit inconvenient. Any hints or pointers would be greatly appreciated.
> 
When this has happened to me, reinstalling grub on the boot drive
has fixed things.

(I have a /boot partition on hda1, system is on hda2, grub boot sector on hda)

# grub
root (hd0,0)
setup (hd0)
quit




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