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maestrowei

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Registered: 2007-03-28

Posts: 2

Colorful screen garbage after pacman-Syu [SOLVED]

So I cycled my arch machine this morning, and I get a lovely greeting message right after a brief "loading grub."   I've increased the timeout to a large number, but grub seems to fail right as it's loading.   Recently did a pacman -Syu a few days ago.  My disks do seem to be in fine order, with no /var/log/messages issues, and I can mount it using a live cd.  Ideas?

EDIT:
It seems the mbr was corrupted... although I'm not dual booting.  Basically:
1.  Started the liveCD
2.  su; grub
3. find /boot/grub/stage1
4. root (hd0,0) (output of above)
5. setup (hd0) (output of stage 3, less second arg
reboot!
Thanks to http://log.xbsd.nl/2007/05/grub-recovery.html  I didn't even get to play with super grub disk

Last edited by maestrowei (2008-12-12 19:42:58)