On 7/24/19 10:45 AM, Haines Brown wrote:
I seem to be loosing ground. Someone helped me with the chroot method,
but then:
# grub2-install /dev/sdb
bash: grub2-install: command not found
# grub-install /dev/sdb
bash: grub-install: command not found
# ls -la /usr/sbin | grep grub-install
ls: cannot access '/usr/sbin': No such file or directory
# ls -la /usr | grep sbin
[no return]
$ ls -la /usr | grep sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Jul 24 08:30 sbin
I've no idea what's going on. I was told to use the grub2-install
command, but on my system (Ascii) there is only
/usr/sbin/grub-install.
grub-install is all I've ever used or seen mentioned in debian.
It seems my grub-install command can be run
by user,
Please describe what happens when user runs grub-install. And what do you
get when you run
echo $PATH
as user and as root?
but not by root becasue root has no path to /usr/sbin.
That was my first thought, until I read the following in your previous post:
# /usr/sbin/grub-install /dev/sdb
# bash: /usr/sbin/grub-install: No such file or directory
It should run when you call it with the full path, even if /usr/sbin is
not in your path.
How are you becoming root? In ascii, either 'su' or 'su -' will give you
*/sbin in your path. In beowulf, only 'su -' will give you root's path.
Just plain 'su' leaves you with user's path.
(OT) Does anyone know why they changed the behavior of su? Is there a
reason why root should have /usr/share/games in the path?
Probably not relevant is that every morning I get this cron error:
/etc/cron.daily/apt-compat:
Cache has broken packages, exiting
What happens if you empty the cache with 'apt-get clean' or the equivalent?
fsmithred
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