On Monday, December 09, 2013 06:06:24 AM Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 15:15 +0530, Kailash Kalyani wrote: > > The issue started when I removed old linux images from Ubuntu which is > > on another partition. That resulted in a grub update from ubuntu and > > since then I've had this issue. > > So the answer already seems to be there. Ubuntu did likely automatically > write a broken grub.cfg with what ever obscure boot option that does > break to log in your Debian. > > If possible you should use a good boot loader instead of GRUB, e.g. > Syslinux. I use GRUB 2 just for fun too, but edit grub.cfg manually. > > Use GRUB 2 from Debian, hopefully it's defaults are more sane than those > of *buntus and automatically generate a saner grub.cfg.
Syslinux is nice, but it has its own problems and limitations. I couldn't get it to work on ISO installer, ISO converted-to-flash install and the system runtime. Grub 2 is, as far as I know, still broken. I once spent 2-3 weeks trying to change my firewall system from isolinux/lilo/grub to grub2 for all booting. I couldn't get it to work on ISO and it simply refused to install on the disk I told it to (it always used the first disk it found that had some form of grub2 on it). I finally quit and went back to grub legacy with all of redhat's patches. I had it re-integrated and running in about a half hour: booting the ISO and the ISO equivalent on flash/rotating drives--which entails copying the tree from the ISO, changing '(cd)' to '(hd0,0)' in the config file(s), and installing grub in the boot loader--and booting the runtime system. The firewall system now has a consistent boot presentation. Since then, I've fixed a few bugs in it; it now displays background images very nicely, handles multiple linked config files, works very well on serial consoles, and the 'hit a key to continue' works reliably to select the serial or VESA console when it finds both. My tuppence. -- 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/201312091204.21162.neal.p.mur...@alum.wpi.edu
