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Old 07-04-2011, 03:49 PM
Petrus de Calguarium
 
Default GRUB problem

Bruno Martins - GALILEU LISBOA wrote:

> I'm having problems with booting Fedora 14 X64 after I clone the hard disk
> with Clonezilla.
>
> Disk imaging goes nices until it reaches the end, when it tries to
> reinstall GRUB on the target hard disk. It hangs, but I can boot that disk
> one time. Once the machine is restarted, I lose the boot loader.
>
> Tried to repair it through Fedora Live CD following this guide -
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=845741 -, but it hangs on "GRUB
> Loading, please wait...".

If you are cloning, then that means you must now have 2 partitions with
Fedora 14. Since you cloned, it might not be easy to tell which system you
are now running, the original or the clone.

You can only have one grub installed. Since you can boot "one time" then grub
must already be installed. Otherwise, how do you manage to boot?

Reinstall grub, just to make sure it is in the right place. I find it best to
have grub on the MBR of the *first hard drive* eg., on /dev/sda (not on
/dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb or whatever).

To install grub, as root and from the command line (not from the grub shell,
like the ubuntu formum says--that is another way, but doesn't always 'take'.
I had a problem with that once, too). Boot into your *main* operating system
and run:

grub-install /dev/sda

Then, boot into the main system and edit /boot/grub/grub.conf to add menu
entries for the various partitions that have operating systems. Editing
grub.conf on other systems will not change anything. It must be the grub.conf
on the system you ran the grub-install command on.

If Windows or some other program overwrites the MBR, don't worry. Just
reinstall grub from your main system:

grub-install /dev/sda

> Any ideas on why is this happening?

Not at all.

> Any ideas on [what] is this happening?

Not a clue. Hope this gets you further.

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Old 07-04-2011, 03:56 PM
"Bruno Martins - GALILEU LISBOA"
 
Default GRUB problem

I'm gonna try that, mate.

Thanks for your response.

Best regards,

Bruno Martins
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-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Antonio Olivares
Sent: segunda-feira, 4 de Julho de 2011 16:03
To: Community support for Fedora users
Subject: Re: GRUB problem


--- On Mon, 7/4/11, Bruno Martins - GALILEU LISBOA <bmartins@galileu.pt> wrote:

From: Bruno Martins - GALILEU LISBOA <bmartins@galileu.pt>
Subject: GRUB problem
To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Date: Monday, July 4, 2011, 4:22 AM










Hello everyone,
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I’m having problems with booting Fedora 14 X64 after I clone the hard disk with Clonezilla.
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Disk imaging goes nices until it reaches the end, when it tries to reinstall GRUB on the target hard disk. It hangs, but I can boot that disk one time. Once the machine is restarted, I lose the boot loader.
*
Tried to repair it through Fedora Live CD following this guide - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=845741*-, but it hangs on “GRUB Loading, please wait…”.
*
Any ideas on why is this happening?
*
Thanks!
*
Best regards,
*



Bruno Martins
Assistente Técnico / Technical Assistant
GALILEU Lisboa
bmartins@galileu.pt
(+351) 213612222
(+351) 933612205







*


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This is a bug with clonezilla since it uses grub 2 from debian testing:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.clonezilla.live/1047

to remedy the problem you may use older version(s) of clonezilla or use alternative cd.

Regards,

Antonio


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Old 07-04-2011, 04:19 PM
"Bruno Martins - GALILEU LISBOA"
 
Default GRUB problem

Petrus,

Thanks for your help, but the solution from Antonio worked well.
It seems like there is really a bug with GRUB and recent versions of Debian-based Clonezilla.

Sincerely,

Bruno Martins
Assistente Tcnico / Technical Assistant
GALILEU Lisboa
bmartins@galileu.pt
(+351) 213612222
(+351) 933612205


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-----Original Message-----
From: users-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Petrus de Calguarium
Sent: segunda-feira, 4 de Julho de 2011 16:49
To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org
Subject: Re: GRUB problem

Bruno Martins - GALILEU LISBOA wrote:

> I'm having problems with booting Fedora 14 X64 after I clone the hard disk
> with Clonezilla.
>
> Disk imaging goes nices until it reaches the end, when it tries to
> reinstall GRUB on the target hard disk. It hangs, but I can boot that disk
> one time. Once the machine is restarted, I lose the boot loader.
>
> Tried to repair it through Fedora Live CD following this guide -
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=845741 -, but it hangs on "GRUB
> Loading, please wait...".

If you are cloning, then that means you must now have 2 partitions with
Fedora 14. Since you cloned, it might not be easy to tell which system you
are now running, the original or the clone.

You can only have one grub installed. Since you can boot "one time" then grub
must already be installed. Otherwise, how do you manage to boot?

Reinstall grub, just to make sure it is in the right place. I find it best to
have grub on the MBR of the *first hard drive* eg., on /dev/sda (not on
/dev/sda1 or /dev/sdb or whatever).

To install grub, as root and from the command line (not from the grub shell,
like the ubuntu formum says--that is another way, but doesn't always 'take'.
I had a problem with that once, too). Boot into your *main* operating system
and run:

grub-install /dev/sda

Then, boot into the main system and edit /boot/grub/grub.conf to add menu
entries for the various partitions that have operating systems. Editing
grub.conf on other systems will not change anything. It must be the grub.conf
on the system you ran the grub-install command on.

If Windows or some other program overwrites the MBR, don't worry. Just
reinstall grub from your main system:

grub-install /dev/sda

> Any ideas on why is this happening?

Not at all.

> Any ideas on [what] is this happening?

Not a clue. Hope this gets you further.

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Old 07-05-2011, 03:18 PM
Navdeep Singh Sidhu
 
Default GRUB problem

Dear Bruno Martins,
Try to use rescatux it will help you to reinstall or update your more easier than shell method. Check details here

http://linuxgndu.webs.com/apps/forums/topics/show/4882966-method-to-repair-or-reinstall-your-grub-boot-loader-


for any other help email gain.

Regards,
Navdeep Singh

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