[CentOS] GRUB, and how do I loathe thee
R P Herrold
herrold at centos.org
Fri Jun 4 18:21:52 UTC 2010
a cross post -- how tacky
On Fri, 4 Jun 2010, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> Does *anyone* who works on GRUB actually work in the real
> world, and not only on brand new machines?
certainly -- I had a data recovery a couple weeks ago where
all I could reach on boot was the grub command prompt, a tight
time deadline, no spare box to debug from, and a need to do
exploration from that prompt
> I just had happen at work what happened last fall on my home system: then,
> I had /dev/hda, and was trying a clean install on a new SATA drive; right
... snip
> I am NEVER OFFERED THE OPTION of the MBR of the drive I'm
> installing to.
Yup -- Probably you did not get a clean initrd containing the
needed driver module for the SATA drive controller in
question. Happens a lot.
-- Russ herrold
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