Pardus won't boot from GRUB after Pisi update.

[brjoon1021]

HI,

I updated Pardus with Pisi, I think that I upgraded everything that was there to upgrade. On reboot, I get to Grub but the strangest thing happens from then on...

1. GRUB does not have an entry for a Pardus Kernel to select.

2. There is what appears to be a cursor jumping around the black GRUB screen

3. my printer starts printing out the GRUB menu page... really! I did not even know that this was possible.

can you help or get me started in the right direction ?

[Kavani]

I have to agree, that is odd.  Do you have a live cd to boot from?  If so we can help you fix the grub menu.  Out of curiosity, did you install Pardus 2007.1 or the current release?

[brjoon1021]

It was not the current release, probably 2007.0, It has been on there for months, now. I do have a liveCD

[Kavani]

Boot with the live cd and drill down to your /boot/grub folder and the /boot/grub folder on the live cd.  Open up the menu.lst in both and see what you have.  It should look something like this:

Code:

title Pardus 2007.2 RC [2.6.18.8-85]
root (hd0,0)
kernel (hd0,0)/boot/kernel-2.6.18.8-85 root=/dev/sdb3
video=vesafb:nomtrr,pmipal,ywrap,1024x768-32@60 console=tty2
mudur=language:en resume=/dev/sdb2
initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initramfs-2.6.18.8-84

Keep in mind that the above is from the beta/first release of 2007.2.  My 2007.1 is currently being used by a friend, along with my live cd, so I don't rightfully remember what the grub should say.  You can use from Konsole:

Code:

kdesu kate menu.lst

to edit the file on your hard drive if you feel comfortable.  I've noticed a few users having this same update/boot problem, and I'm curious to see what the common factor is.   

[brjoon1021]

Sorry, I should have been more clear. I mean that I have a live CD, many of them, just not Pardus... I don't know how to make the fix with the PCLinuxOS liveCD. Do you?

[Kavani]

That should work.  Use the live cd to boot and get to your hard drive, which should be under /media or /mnt.  Then drill down to your /boot/grub/menu.lst file.  You might have to be root to edit it there too.  Anyway, if you see two entries, make sure they look the same (except the kernel entry).  I hope this has helped.

[brjoon1021]

I added your entry, with the necessary changes and it still won't boot from the 85 kernel, the 83 will work. The problem happened due to Pisi updating the kernel, I think.

I am just going to reinstall , it was not that customized.

[brjoon1021]

I reinstalled with the 2007.3 CD. I updated with PISI and now Pardus will not boot with the following Chainload entry in another GRUB

title Pardus
root (hd0,5)
chainloader +1

This is exactly what caused me to start the thread with the 2007.2 version.  I don't think that Pardus is making a GRUB menu.lst correction for changes made to the booting stuff after Pisi upgrades it.