Re: GRUB failure after updates

2016-03-08 Thread mat715
Thanks. An update installed yesterday appears to have fixed this problem. MIke - Original Message - From: mat...@comcast.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2016 11:32:08 AM Subject: GRUB failure after updates I have a single core pentium processor

Re: GRUB failure after updates

2016-02-15 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 18:32:08 + (UTC) mat...@comcast.net wrote: > I have a single core pentium processor system. Not sure about the > version of Debian Linux however I do know: > > > GRUB v1.99-27 > > GNOME Version 3.4.2 For your information, this would appear to be Debian 7.

Re: GRUB failure after updates

2016-02-14 Thread Terence
Hi, Mike, If GRUB allows you to boot into Debian, run "update-grub" as a sudo command or as root. The resulting report should show that GRUB has found both OS on your system. Mine shows, for example: Generating grub configuration file ... Found background image:

GRUB failure after updates

2016-02-14 Thread mat715
I have a single core pentium processor system. Not sure about the version of Debian Linux however I do know: GRUB v1.99-27 GNOME Version 3.4.2 32 bit O/S For several years I have used this hardware with Windows XP and Debian in a dual bootable system through GRUB. Yesterday I

Re: GRUB failure

2011-07-02 Thread Bret Busby
On Fri, 1 Jul 2011, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: Bret Busby Ask: Hello. I have a laptop computer with winXP Pro, Unbuntu 8.04 and Debian 5 (I think it is 5), installed. With a recent electricity supply failure, I ran an orderly shutdown on the computer. Since that shutown, each time

Re: GRUB failure

2011-07-02 Thread Joel Roth
On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 03:07:24AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: Hello. I have a laptop computer with winXP Pro, Unbuntu 8.04 and Debian 5 (I think it is 5), installed. With a recent electricity supply failure, I ran an orderly shutdown on the computer. Since that shutown, each time that I

Re: GRUB failure

2011-07-02 Thread Bret Busby
On Fri, 1 Jul 2011, Joel Roth wrote: On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 03:07:24AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: Hello. I have a laptop computer with winXP Pro, Unbuntu 8.04 and Debian 5 (I think it is 5), installed. With a recent electricity supply failure, I ran an orderly shutdown on the computer.

Re: GRUB failure

2011-07-02 Thread Joel Roth
On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 02:14:28AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On Fri, 1 Jul 2011, Joel Roth wrote: On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 03:07:24AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: Hello. I have a laptop computer with winXP Pro, Unbuntu 8.04 and Debian 5 (I think it is 5), installed. With a recent

GRUB failure

2011-07-01 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. I have a laptop computer with winXP Pro, Unbuntu 8.04 and Debian 5 (I think it is 5), installed. With a recent electricity supply failure, I ran an orderly shutdown on the computer. Since that shutown, each time that I reboot the computer, it takes me to the GRUB prompt (rather than

Re: GRUB failure

2011-07-01 Thread teddieeb
Bret Busby Ask: Hello. I have a laptop computer with winXP Pro, Unbuntu 8.04 and Debian 5 (I think it is 5), installed. With a recent electricity supply failure, I ran an orderly shutdown on the computer. Since that shutown, each time that I reboot the computer, it takes me to the GRUB prompt

Re: GRUB failure

2011-07-01 Thread teddieeb
I have a laptop computer with winXP Pro, Unbuntu 8.04 and Debian 5 (I think it is 5), installed. I will also add, I am not sure which partition you had grub booting from. Ubuntu or Debian... But the version of grub that was installed is important. Debian Testing or Wheezy is using

Re: grub failure after recent dist-upgrade

2009-02-21 Thread Peter Robinson
Brad Rogers wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:36:42 -0800 Todd A. Jacobs tjacobs-tmp-1235597804.7b5...@codegnome.org wrote: Hello Todd, error: unknown command 'initrd' How can I recover from this? First, you need to get the system up. Do this by editing the boot command so the

Re: grub failure after recent dist-upgrade

2009-02-21 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 09:27:33 +0100 Peter Robinson peter.robin...@t-online.de wrote: Hello Peter, I had the same problem and solved by commenting out the set and search lines in grub.cfg: Which is just what I did. At least I know the problem is not unique to me. Finally, please don't Cc:

grub failure after recent dist-upgrade

2009-02-20 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I'm running 2.6.26-1-amd64 on a 64-bit system, and am primarily running a testing system with a few other packages mixed in from sid and experimental. After a recent dist-upgrade, grub 1.96 now fails to boot with: error: unknown command 'initrd' This happens for all kernels on the boot

Re: grub failure after recent dist-upgrade

2009-02-20 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:36:42 -0800 Todd A. Jacobs tjacobs-tmp-1235597804.7b5...@codegnome.org wrote: Hello Todd, error: unknown command 'initrd' How can I recover from this? First, you need to get the system up. Do this by editing the boot command so the first two lines get removed.

grub failure

2006-07-31 Thread Francesco Pietra
Dual boot, debian etch i386, filesystem reiserfs 3.6, today did not start: ---Grub loading, please wait... Error 21 Power switched off and given again: started perfectly. Any guess thank you francesco pietra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: grub failure

2006-07-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 01:31:42PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: Dual boot, debian etch i386, filesystem reiserfs 3.6, today did not start: ---Grub loading, please wait... Error 21 means a disk could not be accessed, or found, or was not properly reported by the bios. from info grub 21 :