On 21 Jul 2009, Florian Kriener wrote: > On Tuesday 21 July 2009 19:16:34 Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > Don't remember now about the boot message from grub, need to look, but if > > > it says grub instead of grub 2 in may be that the files installed are > > > from grub2 but the boot sector itself is grub ... > > > > I think this may be what happened. The first time I booted after the > > change to grub2 it was OK, but there was a message at the top saying I > > could or should do "update-grub--- something or other" to install it in > > the boot sector. I did that and then the problem appeared. I'm trying > > to find a way back but I fear the worst. > > Don't worry, it's just the boot manager. My guess would be, that Grub 2 is > not > installed in the MBR, but Grub 1. And after running update-grub you removed > all Grub 1 modules and replaced them with Grub 2 modules. This indeed tends > to > break the boot manager. > > Since you said you have a rescue system at hand it should be quite easy to > bring your system back up. First boot into your rescue system, mount your > file > systems to /target or whatever, bind mount /dev and /proc into it (just for > reference: mount -o bind /dev /target/dev) too and chroot into it (chroot > /target bash -i, or the like). Then run grub-install /dev/sda (or whatever > discs MBR you want to install it to) and update-grub. Check that device.map > is > correct (if not correct it and rerun grub-install and update-grub). Check > grub.cfg too, just to be sure and reboot. > > Feel free to ask again, if this did not work. It might be that I forgot > something. >
Thanks, Florian; worked like a charm! I didn't even need to do the chroot stuff because the Debian install disk mounts the file system for you in recovery mode. Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - a...@acampbell.org.uk Microsoft-free zone - Using Debian GNU/Linux http://www.acampbell.org.uk (blog, book reviews, and sceptical articles) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
