[ale] GRUB issue on boot

[Jerald Sheets]

rpm -ivh packagename.rpm --force


On Apr 13, 2006, at 10:02 AM, Ryan Fish wrote:

> How do I reinstall grub?  When I try to use RPM it just tells me  
> the package is already installed (of course it is...).
>
> Thank you.
> -Ryan
>
>
>>
>> From: "James Sumners" <james.sumners at gmail.com>
>> Date: 2006/04/13 Thu AM 09:39:54 EDT
>> To: FishR at bellsouth.net,  "Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts" <ale at ale.org>
>> Subject: Re: [ale] GRUB issue on boot
>>
>> Install lilo. I don't know why distributions are moving to Grub. I
>> have never seen an installation of it that doesn't screw up at some
>> point. I recently added a kernel switch to the Grub config on my SuSE
>> 10.0 box and it caused my machine to reboot every time Grub  
>> started to
>> load. I reinstalled Grub several times and the same thing kept
>> happening. Surprise, surprise, I installed lilo, with a basic config,
>> and I could boot my machine again.
>>
>> Just grab a copy of SysRecueCd (http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page),
>> boot from it, mount your root partition, and chroot to it. Then you
>> can try to re-install Grub or install a boot manager that is more
>> stable (doesn't suck).
>>
>> On 4/13/06, Ryan Fish <FishR at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I have a RHEL3 ES server that is scrolling "grub" across the  
>>> screen after a
>>> reboot (I installed the latest kernel the other day).  What would  
>>> cause this
>>> and how can I fix it?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>> -Ryan
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>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> James Sumners
>> http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/
>>
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>> pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
>> is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
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>>
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>> CH:D 59
>>
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