On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:43 AM, keshav prabhakar <kes...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > looks like I didn't 'reply all' before.. >> >> As a start and without diagnosing further, I'd boot from an install CD >> in rescue mode and re-create the initramfs either with >> "update-initramfs -u -k ..." or "update-initramfs -d -k ... ; >> update-initramfs -c -k ...". >> >> You might want to run "update-grub" after that, for good measure; or >> even "grub-install ... ; update-grub". >> > hm, this is all new to me.. I tried the steps as you suggested - using a > netinstall CD of 6.0.7, i went to rescue mode but I can't find > update-initramfs anywhere. > > ~# update-initramfs -u > /bin/sh: update-initramfs: not found > ~# > ~# find / -name update-initramfs > ~#
It's "/usr/sbin/update-initramfs". Do you have "/usr" mounted? What choices did you make for rescue mode? AFAIR, there are two screens where you have to make the right choice. There's a screen to choose a root filesystem. Did you choose a right one? There's a screen to execute a shell. Did you choose to execute a shell within the root filesystem that you chose above? If you make the right choices, you'll be chrooted into your install a "/". If "/boot", "/usr", "/var", or "..." are on a separate partition you have to mount them manually. -- 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/CAOdo=sxte766cqd3ser-c9vmf_bodgi-rxazfp0ikgu7xm2...@mail.gmail.com
