Re: GRUB-1.96 won't boot, boots into rescue prompt

[Pavel Roskin]

On Mon, 2008-03-10 at 00:07 +0100, Jelle Geerts wrote:

> After installing Gentoo + GRUB 1.96 and rebooting; I get a
> "grub rescue>" prompt. I've ran `grub-install /dev/sda' and
> `update-grub'.
> 
> I had to modify `/etc/grub.d/10_linux' in order to let it find
> `/boot/kernel-2.6.23-gentoo-r9'. I don't think that this should
> matter since `update-grub' displayed a message that Linux was
> found (and the exact kernel filename matched the one I wanted).
> 
> Now some debugging information. In the "grub rescue>" prompt,
> `insmod normal' resulted in `error: unknown device'.
> 
> `set' returned:
> prefix=(hd0,2)/boot/grub
> root=hd0,2

Try the "ls" command without arguments.  It will show the available
drives.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin