On Monday 05 December 2011 22:44:51 Harry Putnam wrote: > Johann Spies <jsp...@sun.ac.za> writes: > > On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 03:38:22PM +0200, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> I'm bunrning a systemRescue cd now... but any suggestions will be most > >> welcome. > > > > Booting with a live CD (like systemRescue) or the standard Debian > > Install CD will help. > > > > 'chroot' to the system and do an 'update-grub'. > > Writing this from chroot. > > When I run update-grub, it appears to be working but ends with > something akin to an error: > > root # update-grub > Generating grub.cfg ... > Found background image: > /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-grub.png > Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-1-686-pae > Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-1-686-pae > Cannot find list of partitions! (Try mounting /sys.) > done > > So its not clear if it has finished properly or what. > > Apparently /sys is not populated in a chroot, or there is something I > needed to run before chroot. > > Anyway, I'm going to try booting manually again with ArntK's addition > of adding the initrd line to the grub commands
you need to mount /proc, /sys and /dev before chrooting to the target -- 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/201112052300.38340.mikl...@gmail.com