Grub not working

[dave boland]

On Thu, 05 May 2011 02:43 +0800, "Goh Lip" <g.lip at gmx.com> wrote:
> On 05/05/2011 02:15 AM, Goh Lip wrote:
> > *to*
> >
> > insmod part_msdos
> > insmod ext2
> > set root='(/dev/sda,msdos8)'
> > search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > if loadfont /usr/share/grub/unicode.pf2 ; then
> >    set gfxmode=640x480
> >    load_video
> >    insmod gfxterm
> > fi
> 
> 
> Sorry, Dave
> search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> should be
> search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> And, if you are very very very sure that it is not grub-legacy, You can 
> start from the *Reboot into Ubuntu 11.04 (dev/sda8)* part. The part 
> above it is to make sure you use grub2. But no harm if you do it even if 
> you're on grub2.
> 
> I think it is your monitor resolution that your grub cannot assess.
> So what we did is to set to low res of 640x 480.
> You can check your res at grub prompt by
> grub> vbeinfo

Goh,

The vbeinfo was quite short:
grub> vbeinfo
Error 27: Unrecognized command

Grub Help has vbeprobe (or something like that), but it also returned an
error.  My guess is that these commands apply to Grub 2.


Dave,
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