On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 14:36 -0500, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 12:26 PM, John Foster <jfoster81...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Here's a new one for you GRUB2 gurus. I left my office attended by my 2 (5 & > > 7 yr. old very curious) grandsons. When about 3 minutes later I returned, my > > system ( which is a multiple boot of Debian Linux SID, Windows 7 Pro, & > > Ubuntu 9,) had been rebooted form Windows7 to the GRUB2 rescue mode & > > stalled there. I figure one of them pushed the soft reboot button & > > restarted the system. Now I had it set to boot to Debian Linux > > automatically, but as I recall the GRUB2 boot-loader had beside the previous > > listed OS's, another load item on the menu. Which was GRUB2 rescue mode; Now > > I have been unable to boot the system into anything except the rescue mode > > The error message given is: GRUB can't find required file: x.updates. Now as > > I,"m at work & not looking at the exact message returned, I may be off a bit > > on the verbiage. If anyone has any ideas I would appreciate a reply to me > > directly as sometimes the filters get list replies. > > There's never any grub2 rescue mode entry; you must mean "recovery > mode", which boots into single-user mode. > > This is the grub2 manual resolution: > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#GRUB-only-offers-a-rescue-shell > > (By the way, your reply-to address is "John Foster"@liszt.debian.org > rather than your sending address, jfoster81...@gmail.com.) > > OK I read the link info & I do not think that an incorrect installation is the issue. I used Super Grub2 disk to start my Debian Linux mixed Sid/squeeze installation & Linux works fine from there as I'm using it to send this. exact message that I get when grub2 tries to boot the computer is;
rescue> error: symbol not found: 'grub_xputs' so the system has defaulted to drop me into the rescue mode as there is a file needed for proper bootin, missing. I did try completely removing all of the grub-common & everything with grub2 or grub in the name or description, Then reinstalled everything. I still having the same problem. & thanks Tom for the tip re e-mail; I have it set this way so I will get my mail regardless of whether or not I get a list feed. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1292860298.4209.15.ca...@beast.johnwfoster.info