On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 01:26:48PM +0300, Noam Rathaus wrote: > Hi, > > We encountered a grub weirdness and I can't find any reference to this issue > on the Internet. > > Recipe: > 1) Install debian via debian-installer (testing version) > 2) Get a "standard desktop" running > 3) Download a tar.gz of another debian-installer based system > 4) Boot into a network-based rescue disk > 5) untar the tar.gz into the system > 6) Reboot > > From this point the grub boots and shows the prompt, Internet sites suggest > that the /boot/grub/ directory is malformed, or missing, or doesn't have the > configuration files - this is not true, everything is there :) > > If I "move" the /boot/ directory to /boot.backup/ prior to untaring, then > move > it back to /boot/ (replacing the one found inside the tar.gz) the system > boots - but with a wrong kernel, obviously. > > Ideas?
Did you try to reinstall grub? E.g. grub-install /dev/sda Do this after untarring etc. -- Didi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
