>> My usual email isn't available until Grub works again. >> Yes, updating a system via a remote connection is probably not advisable. >> Attempting to run aptitude to reinstall grub from the rescue mode system >> gives this message. >> Error opening terminal: bterm >> How might this damage be repaired.
> There have been many threads recently about grub-pc boot problems, > including an advisory not to update grub-pc in apt-listchanges > during the upgrade itself. > No doubt the grub fans out there will give me flak for saying this; > but honestly, if it were me, I'd install lilo and forget about > grub, at least for a while. Once you upgrade you can't easily > go back. You either wait for the bug to be fixed, or you try a > tricky and unsupported installation of a back-level package, or > you install something else. In this case the solution is to install > something else. That's what I did. Your regular rants against grub are entertaining. :) The OP said that his error was "BIOS Installed Successfully", which must mean that his box had a hardware upgrade/change and that could easily make any boot loader, linux/unix/windows/apple, lose its bearings. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org