Suse startup issue stops at "grub"
 

Hi,

I was trying to fix startup issue.
Once I baked up /boot

>cp -Rv /boot/* /opt/BOOT/

I copied whole /boot partition from back up.
Started host with live cd then.
> rm -rf /boot/*
>cp -R /opt/BOOT/* /boot/

whole thing is copied over, Now when I restart host it stops at very first step and it shows word
"GRUB"
Can that be fixed?

Thanks

reinstall grub to the disk from a live cd. i'm not sure what caused your problem (i wouldn't try it!) but cp -a would have been better, anyway -- if not rsync for a backup. "GRUB" is the first and only thing you see after system POST? I'm not sure, but that probably means you're only getting the MBR section. Anyway, do the first thing i said.

Lessons learned:
Don't rm -rf /boot/*.
Why would you do that, anyway? I mean, I guess this is interesting for exploratory purposes, but it soudns like a pain in the arse, too.

Also, /opt is not a standard place for backups -- it's for "opt"ional software packages.

In RH I never had that issue.
Thing is my host has sles9 and the live cd is openSuse11. Would it still work.


Thanks.

Probably. Grub versions don't change much and all it has to do is follow a pointer to go execute the initrd chain and get everything off the ground. So long as you have *a* function grub, it is my belief that it should work fine.