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stee1rat

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Registered: 2013-10-22

Posts: 70

[SOLVED] Restart after the 'GRUB loading' message

Hello everyone!

I need help with my grub installation.

The problem is that during boot process, after the message 'GRUB loading' appears, my netbook restarts and this is an endless loop.
I did everything according to the wiki and I have no idea what I did wrong.
I'm pretty sure, though, that this is not a problem with grub.cfg, because, even after moving grub.cfg to grub.cfg.bak I still get the  'GRUB loading' message.
Could someone, please, guide me through this?

Here's my partitioning scheme:

root@archiso ~ # parted /dev/sdb print                                                     
Model: ATA ASUS-PHISON SSD (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 8070MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    File system     Name    Flags
 1      1049kB  200MB   199MB   ext4            boot    bios_grub
 2      200MB   1200MB  999MB   linux-swap(v1)  swap
 3      1200MB  8069MB  6869MB  ext4            rootfs

The installation itself didn't give any errors or warnings:

root@archiso ~ # arch-chroot /mnt

sh-4.3# ls -la /boot
total 23444
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root     1024 Sep 14 18:37 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root     4096 Sep 14 18:36 ..
drwxr-xr-x  6 root root     1024 Sep 14 16:26 grub
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 16840181 Sep 14 18:37 initramfs-linux-fallback.img
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  3371736 Sep 14 18:37 initramfs-linux.img
drwx------  2 root root    12288 Sep 14 16:25 lost+found
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  3774496 Sep  6 11:15 vmlinuz-linux

sh-4.3# grub-install --recheck /dev/sdb
Installing for i386-pc platform.
Installation finished. No error reported.

sh-4.3# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-linux
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-linux.img
Found fallback initramfs image: /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img
done

Last edited by stee1rat (2014-09-14 18:46:22)

ewaller

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Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: [SOLVED] Restart after the 'GRUB loading' message

As a sanity check, you are working with sdb here.  Any chance your system is booting from sda? And that you are looking at a different MBR and Grub than you think you are?

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stee1rat

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Registered: 2013-10-22

Posts: 70

Re: [SOLVED] Restart after the 'GRUB loading' message

Thanks for the answer, but turned out it was my concepts misunderstanding: I should've not format the boot partition (/dev/sdb1) and mount it to /boot.
Tomty89 and strcpy from #archlinux IRC channel clarified this for me .

it should look like this (note the File system difference for the first partition):

[root@eeepc ~]# parted /dev/sdb print
Model: ATA ASUS-PHISON SSD (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 8070MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    File system     Name    Flags
 1      1049kB  200MB   199MB                   boot    bios_grub
 2      200MB   1200MB  999MB   linux-swap(v1)  swap
 3      1200MB  8069MB  6869MB  ext4            rootfs

Last edited by stee1rat (2014-09-14 18:53:38)