On Mon, 05 Dec 2011 07:38:22 -0600, Harry wrote in message <8762hvw33l....@newsguy.com>:
> I haven't rebooted wheezy for a while... and there have been many > updates .. I'm not sure which ones have caused this problem but when > bootup starts I get to grub and immediately a prompt rather than a > selection screen. > > It shows grub version 1.99 ?? something.. so is that grub2... It must > be since I do not recognize most of what I see. > > For example, I can type `help' and a massive flood of commands flash > past leaving only the last screenful visible... there seems no way to > page this mess, so it is mostly useless. > > Pressing <TAB> shows a gout of other commands with no newlines just > all in a blob. Given what I see, I have no idea at all how to proceed > or why this has happened. > > OK, grub2 by itself will never let me see how to get booted. Its > setup all wrong for that to happen, I mean how ridiculous is it to > offer a fountain of commands you can see for 1/50 of a second? So > digging up directions from google.. > > set root (hd0,1) (in grub1 that would be hd0,0) > linux /vm<tab> .._here_ is where you wanna tell grub about your initrd, it (/boot/initrd<tab>?) should match your /vm<tab> . > boot > > OK, now were talking... but whoops.. kernel panic .. just > paraphrasing: `unable to mount root on unknown block' > > What the heck has happened to my poor wheezy? > > I'm bunrning a systemRescue cd now... but any suggestions will be most > welcome. > > -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. -- 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/20111205153649.715bc...@nb6.lan