Bug#462835: Debian bug #462835

[Bharath Ramesh]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 2:40 AM, Felix Zielcke <fzielcke at z-51.de> wrote:
> #not really a good bugtitle but the old one doestn't apply anymore.
> retitle 462835 GRUB goes to rescue mode
> thanks
>
>
> Oh I noticed I forgot to tell you to do grub-install again, to really
> update it. People do forget this but you seem to not belong to those.

bah, I am dumb. I always thought something was wrong. I was under the impression
postinst script would run grub-install for me when it updated grub2.

>
> Am Dienstag, den 19.08.2008, 23:42 -0400 schrieb Bharath Ramesh:
>> The freshly uploaded 1.96+20080724-8 version I end up with the rescue mode. I
>> have to manually load my kernel using the command line.
>>
>> I hope this helps. Will do my best to provide you all the information I can.
>
> That's good news that you can at least manually boot now.
> But it's bad that it seems to be still not fully fixed now.
>
> Make sure your /boot/grub/grub.cfg looks okay.

grub.cfg looks fine its the one I had attached earlier with grub.cfg_broken

> Does GRUB show an error message?

It shows the message "Welcome to Grub"

It flickers some message for an instant I am unable to read it and lands
me into the grub command prompt.

> What do you need to type to boot your system?
> `insmod normal' `normal' to get to the menu and then can select it
> or `linux /boot/vmlinuz' `initrd /boot/initrd'
> or something else?

I just need to type linux /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/mapper/lvm-root ro vga=795
followed by intird = /boot/initrd and lastly issue boot.