On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:26:14PM +0000, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > Package: grub-pc > Version: 1.96+20080219-2 > Severity: important > > I have installed grub-pc on my shiny new AMD64 box. After verifying it > loaded fine when chainloaded from legacy grub I typed > "upgrade-from-grub-legacy" and rebooted. I was rewarded with the grub > rescue shell. > > For some reason it has decided that "prefix=(fd0)/boot/grub" rather than > "prefix=(md0)/boot/grub". If I do something along the lines of (from > memory, but I believe this was the rough gist): > > root (md0) > set prefix=(md0)/boot/grub > insmod /boot/grub/boot.mod > normal > > then I get the expected boot menu. > > I can't see any sign of fd0 in /boot/grub so I'm not even sure how to > fix this locally myself at present.
Please provide the output of the following commands: sudo dd if=/dev/sda bs=1 count=2 skip=76 | od -tx1 sudo grub-setup -v "(hd0)" (assuming /dev/sda is the disk you boot from, of course) -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
