Brian grabbed a keyboard and wrote: > On Fri 30 Aug 2013 at 18:10:00 -0700, David Guntner wrote: >> Grub still seems to think there's Linux on /dev/sdb1. That's >> aggravating...... I guess I'll just try moving the stuff off of the one >> and only partition on that drive to somewhere else temporarily, and then >> delete the partition outright and recreate it. Maybe *THAT* will >> finally do it! > > Maybe; then you put the data back. Before carrying out this technique you > could have a look for files such as /etc, /boot, debian_version, vmlinuz > and initrd.img.
Well, too late on "before you try that," but I had looked at the
partition. None of those files existed on that drive (or partition).
I've been using it as a sort of backup type of partition, mounted as
/backup (until I have time to install backuppc and get it all
configured; I've just been doing an rsync to the drive). Since I was
backing up *everything*, I suppose there's a possibility that it saw
/backup/boot/[...] and acted on it, thought that seems an odd behavior
to me. I'm running the rsync again right now; when it completes I'll
run update-grub again and see if it mysteriously adds the extra entry
again. Then we'll know for sure.
--Dave
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