Sorry, turns out it was my bad. There was the wrong kernel installed in the
main partition, it was an xfs kernel instead of a ext4 kernel.
bottom line if anyone is interested. grub2 works with an ext4 root, you need a
kernel with ext4 support (2.6.28 at least) in that partition, one that does xfs
turns out the issue is ext4 which doesn't work with grub, but it does with
grub2. The problem is that the kernel seems to miss read the partition.
I setup another partition to rescue my system so now I have
sda1: ext4 - original system
sda5: ext3 - small rescue system
grub2 installed on both (cur
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