Grub oddness (not really an issue, just a curiosity)

chrismortimore · 2006-08-29 15:47:24

I redid my partition table today (rearranged things so LVM could get some more space, gained my 16G ), and when I rebooted, grub was broken, which is fair enough. So I did the usual things to reinstall grub (open the grub shell, do root (hd0,0), setup (hd0)) and it reported success and the usual blurb and I thought "Great!". Rebooted, and got presented with the grub prompt instead of the grub menu..

So I booted the system with my 4 lines that luckily I remembered from menu.lst, and reinstalled grub again (open the shell, blah, blah), and got the same success messages and I thought "Great!". Rebooted, and got presented with the grub prompt instead of the grub menu..

So I booted the system with my 4 lines that luckily I still remembered from menu.lst, and reinstalled grub again (open the shell, blah, blah), and got the same success messages and I thought "Hmmm...". Rebooted, and got my menu, hurrah!

So, can anyone think of any reason of why the menu failed the first two times? Is it like a new feature of grub that we all must mimic Bill Murray in Groundhog Day a few times? I never quite fully understood the inner-workings of grub, I just remember the commands parrot fashion "just in case"..

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#1 2006-08-29 15:47:24

Grub oddness (not really an issue, just a curiosity)

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