More below On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:03 PM, Denis Heidtmann <denis.heidtm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Bill Barry <b...@billbarry.org> wrote: >> >> Yes, this shows the system is using grub legacy and I am pretty sure that >> is what is causing your boot problems. There is a page here >> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Upgrading >> >> describing how to upgrade to grub2. >> >> Bill >> >> Help! Got through all that, up through successful chainloading Grub 2. > Test booted; worked fine. So then I entered sudo > upgrade-from-grub-legacy. Now I am presented with a screen asking what > devices to install Grub on: /dev/sda and /dev/sda1. I want to select > /dev/sda, but I can select neither! Tab moves the highlight from the [ ] > in front of each choice, then to OK, but I cannot make a mark in either of > the [ ] spaces. Note that the instruction said I would be presented with > this choice earlier in the upgrade process at step 4, but it was not > presented. > > So, how to safely recover from this? > > Thanks, > > -Denis > As I moved from a screen "are you sure you want to select NO drives..." back to "select drives...", The terminal flashed up briefly. I had to take a video to see what it said..."dpkg: warning: version 'dummy-version' has bad syntax: version number does not start with digit." During the earlier stuff there were warnings about virtual box version string having an invalid character in the version number. Can I just ^c out of this, or is it already in a bad state? -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
