On Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 11:40:05 AM UTC+5:30, Bret Busby wrote: > On 20/02/2015, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Bret Busby wrote: > >> The Debian 7.60 LXDE LiveCD does not have an option to boot into rescue > >> mode. > > > > You could always download the standard debian-installer and use that > > to boot rescue mode. It is a very good option. > > > > > In trying to use a standard Debian installer iso, and booting into > rescue mode, I got toa screen "select partition into which to install > the root system", or words to that effect. > > I have 13 partitions, and that screen does not provide any > information, such as labels or filesystem types, for the partitions, > so I have to figure out which is the appropriate partition to use as > the root system. It does not indicate anything like "A previous Debian > installation was found in partition <x>, so you might want to use this > partition." > > So, I have to remove the disk with that iso image, boot with a LiveCD > disk, and, examine the partitions. > > The laptop computer, to which all of this appiles, whilst being (to > me) a fairly powerful computer, has an inferior optical disk drive, > that appears to be designed to be as diffiocult as possible, to > manually open, often taking uip to 20-30 minutes, to get it to open > manually, to remove or replace the removable optical disk. > > Often, software, including operating system installation iso images, > include a software utility, that ejects the optical disk. > > The Debian 7.8 installation iso image that I downloaded, both in the > rescue mode, and, in the main menu, does not include an option "Abort > installation", at any step that I encountered, wherein, an "Abort > installation" option, involves ejecting the removable media, and a > message "Remove the <removable media and press <ENTER> to reboot." > > On this laptop PC, that appears designed to obstruct manual ejection > of removable media, software induced ejection of the optical removable > media, constistently works without any problem. > > Why does the Debian standard installation iso image, not include an > "Abort installation" option (at each screen, although, even, a single > instantiation, on the primary menu, would help, by rebooting the > system into that menu, to do it, if that is the only way to access > that option), that would enable ejection of the removable media with > the iso image, instead of making this so difficult, to extract the > removable media with the iso image?
Have you tried configfile? configfile is a grub command that can be used to 'connect' to grub eg 1. if your (working) debian's root is in /dev/sda5 Then at the grub prompt try issuing the command configfile (hd0,5)/boot/grub/grub.cfg 2. If however your boot is a separate partition (say sda2) the command would be configfile (hd0,2)/grub/grub.cfg Note: you may need to fiddle with the secureboot options in bios -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/42e17110-34f8-42c4-8d79-57cdec7b8...@googlegroups.com