[GLLUG] problem with grub

[Ghislain Vaillant]

I have had a couple of grub related problems in the past too on my Debian
Sid laptop. The best solution I found everytime was to reinstall GRUB using
a live-USB of Ubuntu. Just boot the Live-USB, chroot to your Debian
partition, re-install the grub package (apt-get install --reinstall),
re-install grub (grub-install /dev/sdX, X being the letter corresponding to
your HDD), exit the chroot and reboot.

Hope you'll eventually fix your problem.

Ghis



2014-03-15 14:41 GMT+00:00 James Courtier-Dutton <james.dutton at gmail.com>:

> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I have done some further investigation and found some additional
> > information.
> >
> > When I am being dropped out to the initramfs, I dont have enteries in
> > /dev/disk/by-uuid for any of my lvm logical volumes.
> >
> > If I do a lvscan, they are all showing as inactive.
> >
> > A vgchange -a y activates them and populates the entries in
> > /dev/disk/by-uuid.
> >
> > If I then exit the initramfs by typing exit, it will boot to a login.  I
> can
> > then login.  The / partition is mounted and I am able to mount the other
> > partitions from lvm.
> >
> > If I then logout and back in, I have a mostly working system.  However I
> > have to manually bring up the eth0.  Also as none of the init scripts
> seem
> > to have run successfully some things dont work.
> >
> > Just wondering what might cause that.
> >
>
> I have come across this problem before.
> It happens when grub does not install correctly,
>
> What you sometimes see is the grub .mod files are corrupted.
> All the .mod files should have the same date on them.
> If there is a mix of dates, delete them all and reinstall grub.
> A mix of dates means that you have a mix of modules from old grub
> versions and they don't work correctly as they don't match the grub
> version number.
>
> Things to do:
> 1) install grub onto a USB stick and put a vmlinuz and initrd on it.
> You can then use this to boot your current system by manually typing
> the grub boot line.
> After that you can then reinstall grub on the HDD.
>
> 2) Boot a live cd or install cd and use CTRL-ALT-F1 or CTRL-ALT-F2 to
> get to a command prompt.
> Then you can do "ls" commands and check out the /boot directory and
> reinstall grub etc.
>
> Kind Regards
>
> James
>
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