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Under some rare conditions, you may get a GRUB loader corruption.
Information Center: Exalytics
This article illustrates how to re-install the GRUB loader on Oracle Linux 5 or 6. In-Memory Machine X3-4
[2288526.2]

Symptoms Information Center: Exalogic

Elastic Cloud X3-2 Hardware
[2286151.2]
1) The GRUB menu is not shown when booting the server

2) Boot the server into rescue mode using installation DVD, and check the header of the booting disk
Document References
If the GRUB loader is corrupted: No References available for this
document.
# file -s /dev/sda
/dev/sda: x86 boot sector; partition 1: ID=0x83, active, starthead 1, startsector 63, 64998927 sectors;
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partition 2: ID=0x82, starthead 254, startsector 64998990, 2104515 sectors
Exalogic: How To Boot A
While a good one looks like: Compute Node To Single
User Mode [2056830.1]
# file -s /dev/sda Exalogic Virtual: Procedure
/dev/sda: x86 boot sector; partition 1: ID=0x83, active, starthead 1, startsector 63, 64998927 sectors; For Replacing Infiniband HCA
partition 2: ID=0x82, starthead 254, startsector 64998990, 2104515 sectors, code offset 0x48 Card On Dom0 Compute
Nodes [1621976.1]
Oracle Exadata Database
The output may vary from different releases, but the key point is that the first output is missing 'code offset 0x48', which is a Machine exachk or
indicator of GRUB Stage 1 code. HealthCheck [1070954.1]
Exalogic X4-2 & X5-2
SOLUTION Solaris Compute Nodes
Kernel Panic Due To Old IB
HCA FW Version [2174550.1]
For native Oracle Linux: ibqueryerrors Reports
SymbolErrors on One or
Let's assume that the booting disk is sda, the / partition is sda2, and /boot partition is sda1. More of the IB switch or HCA
port [1988445.1]

1) Boot the server into rescue mode, and mount the filesystem automatically, Please refer to: How to Boot Oracle Linux into Show More
Rescue Mode
The / partition would be mounted under /mnt/sysimage automatically.
If not, mount it manually:

# mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/sysimage

2) Mount the /boot partition and /dev manually, to prepare the chroot environment:

# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sysimage/boot

# mount -o bind /dev /mnt/sysimage/dev

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# chroot /mnt/sysimage

3) Re-install the GRUB loader

# grub-install /dev/sda

For Oracle Linux on Engineered System Exadata:

1) Boot the server with Exadata diagnostics iso

The / partition would be mounted under /mnt/cell automatically.

2) Mount the /boot partition and /dev manually, to prepare the chroot environment

# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/cell/boot

# mount -o bind /dev /mnt/cell/dev
# chroot /mnt/cell

3) Re-install the GRUB loader

# grub-install /dev/sda

Reboot the server and you should able to see the GRUB menu back.

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