Re: Grub Problem

2022-06-26 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
On 06/25/2022 09:37 AM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: I have four hard drives ion my Bullseye platform; Three SSD's and one HDD. My current copy of Bullseye is on /dev/sdd1. I have installed a pristine copy of Bullsye on /dev/sda. The installer found the copy of Bullseye on /dev/ssd1 and I instal

Re: Grub Problem

2022-06-25 Thread Anssi Saari
"Stephen P. Molnar" writes: > Assistanc will be mucn appeciated. You didn't really specify what you want assistance with but I guess you want to boot the new Bullseye too? I don't really see the point of having two copies of the same OS installed though. Assuming a BIOS system and os-prober pac

Re: Grub Problem

2022-06-25 Thread David Wright
On Sat 25 Jun 2022 at 09:37:32 (-0400), Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > I have four hard drives ion my Bullseye platform; Three SSD's and one > HDD. My current copy of Bullseye is on /dev/sdd1. I have installed a > pristine copy of Bullsye on /dev/sda. > > The installer found the copy of Bullseye on

Re: Grub Problem

2022-06-25 Thread piorunz
On 25/06/2022 14:37, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: The installer found the copy of Bullseye on /dev/ssd1 and I installed grub on /dev/sda1. You supposed to install GRUB in a disk, not in a partition. So, /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1. You select /dev/sda during installation. At the end of the installati

Re: Grub Problem

2022-06-25 Thread DdB
before any action ... comes diagnosis: please fill in missing pieces: - SDD's, HDD are formatted GPT? or is the dinosaur using MBR? - is your computer configured to boot UEFI-style? Or are you still using BIOS-style/compatibility-mode? - can you show (and comment) the output from lsblk and (sudo) b

Grub Problem

2022-06-25 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
I have four hard drives ion my Bullseye platform; Three SSD's and one HDD. My current copy of Bullseye is on /dev/sdd1. I have installed a pristine copy of Bullsye on /dev/sda. The installer found the copy of Bullseye on /dev/ssd1 and I installed grub on /dev/sda1. At the end of the install

Re: Wheezy GRUB problem

2014-08-08 Thread Brian
On Fri 08 Aug 2014 at 21:42:01 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: > On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 05 Aug 2014 at 09:36:18 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: > > > >> Hello! > >> > >> I have a Wheezy system shared with MS XP. GRUB is not in MBR but in Debian > >> partition installe

Re: Wheezy GRUB problem

2014-08-08 Thread Artifex Maximus
On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Brian wrote: > On Tue 05 Aug 2014 at 09:36:18 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> I have a Wheezy system shared with MS XP. GRUB is not in MBR but in Debian >> partition installed. Not recommended I know but basically works. Until last >> upgrade when my

Re: Wheezy GRUB problem

2014-08-07 Thread Brian
On Tue 05 Aug 2014 at 09:36:18 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: > Hello! > > I have a Wheezy system shared with MS XP. GRUB is not in MBR but in Debian > partition installed. Not recommended I know but basically works. Until last > upgrade when my GRUB loader only writes GRUB then halts. Or at least

Re: Wheezy GRUB problem

2014-08-06 Thread Artifex Maximus
On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Gary Dale wrote: > On 05/08/14 03:36 AM, Artifex Maximus wrote: > >> Hello! >> >> I have a Wheezy system shared with MS XP. GRUB is not in MBR but in >> Debian partition installed. Not recommended I know but basically works. >> Until last upgrade when my GRUB loade

Re: Wheezy GRUB problem

2014-08-05 Thread Gary Dale
On 05/08/14 03:36 AM, Artifex Maximus wrote: Hello! I have a Wheezy system shared with MS XP. GRUB is not in MBR but in Debian partition installed. Not recommended I know but basically works. Until last upgrade when my GRUB loader only writes GRUB then halts. Or at least not continue loading.

Wheezy GRUB problem

2014-08-05 Thread Artifex Maximus
Hello! I have a Wheezy system shared with MS XP. GRUB is not in MBR but in Debian partition installed. Not recommended I know but basically works. Until last upgrade when my GRUB loader only writes GRUB then halts. Or at least not continue loading. No errors just stops. I have tried latest (7.6.0)

Re: Debian Wheezy Grub Problem

2013-03-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 00:00 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > dpkg-divert http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/118 I wasn't aware that it's that easy :D, not especially regarding to the GRUB issue, but it would have saved me some work with other packages. OTOH, because I wasn't aware of this,

Re: Debian Wheezy Grub Problem

2013-03-13 Thread Brian
On Wed 13 Mar 2013 at 23:19:57 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 21:16 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > For anyone who actually thinks about following Ralf's advice: if you > > do > > that, it is also necessary to divert /usr/sbin/update-grub and replace > > it with something harmle

Re: Debian Wheezy Grub Problem

2013-03-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-03-13 23:19 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 21:16 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: >> For anyone who actually thinks about following Ralf's advice: if you >> do >> that, it is also necessary to divert /usr/sbin/update-grub and replace >> it with something harmless, say a symli

Re: Debian Wheezy Grub Problem

2013-03-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 21:16 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > For anyone who actually thinks about following Ralf's advice: if you > do > that, it is also necessary to divert /usr/sbin/update-grub and replace > it with something harmless, say a symlink to /bin/true. Otherwise the > local changes to gru

Re: Debian Wheezy Grub Problem

2013-03-13 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2013-03-13 12:59 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 00:28 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:00:35AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> > The automation for GRUB2 is crap, edit the grub.cfg manually, then you >> > also could tidy up grub.cfg and get rid of al

Re: Debian Wheezy Grub Problem

2013-03-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 09:07 -0400, Tom H wrote: > > menuentry 'Ubuntu Quantal, kernel 3.6.5-rt14' { > > set root='(hd1,9)'; set legacy_hdbias='0' > > legacy_kernel '/boot/vmlinuz-3.6.5-rt14' '/boot/vmlinuz-3.6.5-rt14' > > 'root=/dev/sdb9' 'ro' 'quiet' '' > > legacy_initrd '/boot/initrd.img-3.6.5-rt

Re: Debian Wheezy Grub Problem

2013-03-13 Thread Tom H
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 5:00 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 04:34 -0400, Tom H wrote: >> You can set the default in "/etc/default/grub" as >> 'GRUB_DEFAULT="Debian GNU/Linux (6.0.4)"'. > > The automation for GRUB2 is crap, edit the grub.cfg manually, then you > also could tidy u

Re: Debian Wheezy Grub Problem

2013-03-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-03-14 at 00:28 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:00:35AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > The automation for GRUB2 is crap, edit the grub.cfg manually, then you > > also could tidy up grub.cfg and get rid of all the nonsense. > > root@tal:~# ls -al /boot/grub/gr

Re: Debian Wheezy Grub Problem

2013-03-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 10:00:35AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > The automation for GRUB2 is crap, edit the grub.cfg manually, then you > also could tidy up grub.cfg and get rid of all the nonsense. root@tal:~# ls -al /boot/grub/grub.cfg -r--r--r-- 1 root root 3356 Mar 1 22:53 /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Re: Debian Wheezy Grub Problem

2013-03-13 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2013-03-13 at 04:34 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Stephen P. Molnar > wrote: > > > > My main Linux computer (64bit CPU) is about six or seven years old now > > and has had a number of distributions running. As I haven't had any > > luck with upgrades, I've always

Re: Debian Wheezy Grub Problem

2013-03-13 Thread Tom H
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > > My main Linux computer (64bit CPU) is about six or seven years old now > and has had a number of distributions running. As I haven't had any > luck with upgrades, I've always done a complete installation. > > Currently the Grub boot me

Re: Debian Wheezy Grub Problem

2013-03-12 Thread Wayne Topa
On 03/12/2013 02:59 PM, Stephen P. Molnar wrote: My main Linux computer (64bit CPU) is about six or seven years old now and has had a number of distributions running. As I haven't had any luck with upgrades, I've always done a complete installation. Currently the Grub boot menu has a number of

Debian Wheezy Grub Problem

2013-03-12 Thread Stephen P. Molnar
My main Linux computer (64bit CPU) is about six or seven years old now and has had a number of distributions running. As I haven't had any luck with upgrades, I've always done a complete installation. Currently the Grub boot menu has a number of choices: openSUSE Advanced options for openSUSE op

Re: GRUB problem after clone

2012-10-03 Thread Artifex Maximus
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Brian wrote: > On Sat 29 Sep 2012 at 18:56:43 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Brian wrote: >> > >> > At the GRUB prompt press the 'e' key. Please post what you see. There >> > will probably be a long UUID. To save some typing p

Re: GRUB problem after clone

2012-10-01 Thread Artifex Maximus
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 7:50 PM, Brian wrote: > On Sat 29 Sep 2012 at 18:56:43 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: > >> On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Brian wrote: >> > >> > At the GRUB prompt press the 'e' key. Please post what you see. There >> > will probably be a long UUID. To save some typing p

Re: GRUB problem after clone

2012-09-29 Thread Brian
On Sat 29 Sep 2012 at 18:56:43 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: > On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Brian wrote: > > > > At the GRUB prompt press the 'e' key. Please post what you see. There > > will probably be a long UUID. To save some typing put 123 for it. > > Thanks. Might I was not clean. Thi

Re: GRUB problem after clone

2012-09-29 Thread Artifex Maximus
On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Brian wrote: > On Fri 28 Sep 2012 at 22:24:16 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: > >> I would like to move from old 320GB HDD to a new 1TB HDD. I have the >> following partition structure: >> >> sda1 - XP >> sda2 - Debian 7 x86_64 (boot partition) >> sda3 - swap >> >>

Re: GRUB problem after clone

2012-09-29 Thread Brian
On Fri 28 Sep 2012 at 22:24:16 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: > I would like to move from old 320GB HDD to a new 1TB HDD. I have the > following partition structure: > > sda1 - XP > sda2 - Debian 7 x86_64 (boot partition) > sda3 - swap > > The GRUB is on the sda2 partition not in the MBR. That's

GRUB problem after clone

2012-09-28 Thread Artifex Maximus
Hello! I would like to move from old 320GB HDD to a new 1TB HDD. I have the following partition structure: sda1 - XP sda2 - Debian 7 x86_64 (boot partition) sda3 - swap The GRUB is on the sda2 partition not in the MBR. That's why sda2 is the boot partition. If I set sda1 as boot partition XP run

Re: Grub problem

2008-11-08 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Saturday 08 November 2008 16:03, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > Op Sat, 8 Nov 2008 22:22:15 +0200 Bela Balazs wrote: > > The two menu.lst entries: > > > > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.24-1-686 > > root(hd0,1) > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 > > root=UUID=5dd1

Re: Grub problem

2008-11-08 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 11:03:48PM +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > Op Sat, 8 Nov 2008 22:22:15 +0200 Bela Balazs wrote: > > The two menu.lst entries: > > > > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.24-1-686 > > root(hd0,1) > > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 > > root=UU

Re: Grub problem

2008-11-08 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 10:22:15PM +0200, Bela Balazs wrote: > Hello all. > I installed Debian, but the installer failed to install grub. I have that problem whenever I install Etch: the installer says its installing Etch but it doesn't. I end up rebooting the installer in rescue mode and doing

Re: Grub problem

2008-11-08 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Op Sat, 8 Nov 2008 22:22:15 +0200 Bela Balazs wrote: > The two menu.lst entries: > > title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.24-1-686 > root(hd0,1) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-1-686 > root=UUID=5dd1a349-c311-40ca-82f4-a7a39ca134a3 ro > initrd /boot/initrd.img-2

Re: Grub problem

2008-11-08 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Saturday 08 November 2008 21:22:15 Bela Balazs wrote: > Hello all. > I installed Debian, but the installer failed to install grub. Did it fail or din"t propose? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Grub problem

2008-11-08 Thread Bela Balazs
Hello all. I installed Debian, but the installer failed to install grub. I also have Ubuntu, so I installed grub manually by chrooting to the Debian partition.The two systems are installed on separate disks. Debian is installed on a SATA disk.I didn't have a Sata controller on the motherboard so I

Re: grub problem with primary partition

2008-07-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,19.Jul.08, 11:50:10, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,19.Jul.08, 10:36:44, Peibol wrote: > > [...] > > > As you can see hda3 is the last primary partition and it is beyond the > > last logical partition. > > Debian + grub is on hda6 and it boots ok. But I have other Linux > > distributio

Re: grub problem with primary partition

2008-07-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,19.Jul.08, 10:36:44, Peibol wrote: [...] > As you can see hda3 is the last primary partition and it is beyond the > last logical partition. > Debian + grub is on hda6 and it boots ok. But I have other Linux > distribution (Suse) installed on hda3 and when I tried to boot it, it > fai

grub problem with primary partition

2008-07-19 Thread Peibol
Hi all I have a issue with grub using Debian etch. The picture is simple: PC with only one hard disk (hda) and the following partition table. cfdisk 2.12r Disk Drive: /dev/hda Size: 80026361856 bytes, 80.0 GB Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 9729 Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Lab

Re: update-grub problem

2008-05-14 Thread John Hasler
> However, that script DOES exist in the stated path. So what gives with > this? That path ("usr/sbin/update-grub") is relative to the current directory of the process using it. You probably want "/usr/sbin/update-grub". -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

update-grub problem

2008-05-14 Thread John Fleming
I'm trying to install linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 using apt-get. I recently made the recommended change in /etc/kernel-img.conf to include: postinst_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub postrm_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub When I run the apt-get install, the configuration fails with the error about "C

Re: update-grub problem

2008-05-14 Thread John Fleming
What is the current working directory when this script gets run. You told it usr/sbin/update-grub not /usr/sbin/update-grub Note the difference. I still don't know why this is necessary. During the most recent kernel upgrade in Etch, I watched carefully for the usual warning message about not

Re: update-grub problem

2008-05-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
John Fleming wrote: I'm trying to install linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 using apt-get. I recently made the recommended change in /etc/kernel-img.conf to include: postinst_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub postrm_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub When I run the apt-get install, the configuration fails with

Re: update-grub problem

2008-05-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 09:43:14PM -0400, John Fleming wrote: > I'm trying to install linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 using apt-get. I recently > made the recommended change in /etc/kernel-img.conf to include: > > postinst_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub > postrm_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub > > When I run

Re: update-grub problem

2008-05-14 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed May 14 2008 18:43:14 John Fleming wrote: > I'm trying to install linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 using apt-get. I recently > made the recommended change in /etc/kernel-img.conf to include: > > postinst_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub > postrm_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub > > When I run the apt-get inst

update-grub problem

2008-05-14 Thread John Fleming
I'm trying to install linux-image-2.6.18-6-686 using apt-get. I recently made the recommended change in /etc/kernel-img.conf to include: postinst_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub postrm_hook = usr/sbin/update-grub When I run the apt-get install, the configuration fails with the error about "C

Re: GRUB problem?

2006-12-31 Thread Eeltje
Keith Willis schreef: > Hi, > > Here's a weird one... I've noticed that as soon as the GRUB > boot-loader runs, I lose my DVD-RW drive. It functions normally if I > jump into the BIOS setup at boot time, then ceases to respond the > moment GRUB runs, so that even if I boot into WinXP, the drive

GRUB problem?

2006-12-31 Thread Keith Willis
Hi, Here's a weird one... I've noticed that as soon as the GRUB boot-loader runs, I lose my DVD-RW drive. It functions normally if I jump into the BIOS setup at boot time, then ceases to respond the moment GRUB runs, so that even if I boot into WinXP, the drive does not show up. Restoring the

Re: grub problem

2006-06-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 12:27:34PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hello, > > I have a machine with Windows XP and Debian (sarge) installed. The boot > manager is GRUB. The machine was working fine, but suddently GRUB > doesn't boot the system any more. At boot time I get the following: > > >

Re: grub problem

2006-06-07 Thread Mirco Piccin
}}Hello,Hi.}} But how can I reinstall GRUB from the Debian CD without}}passing through the partitioner?Probably booting with a live-cd (Knoppix) and chroot-ing!!Hope it help you!Bye

grub problem

2006-06-07 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hello, I have a machine with Windows XP and Debian (sarge) installed. The boot manager is GRUB. The machine was working fine, but suddently GRUB doesn't boot the system any more. At boot time I get the following: > GRUB loading stage 1.5 > GRUB loading, please wait... and the system freezes. I w

Re: Aptitude/Grub Problem -- Is this a bug?

2006-02-26 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 24 February 2006 17:06, Joey Hess wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > It didn't just remove an entry. Update-grub completely overwrites > > the file so any entries for kernels on other partitions are gone. > > ### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST > ## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST mar

Re: Aptitude/Grub Problem -- Is this a bug?

2006-02-26 Thread Joey Hess
Hal Vaughan wrote: > It didn't just remove an entry. Update-grub completely overwrites the > file so any entries for kernels on other partitions are gone. ### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST ## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified ## by the debian update-grub script exc

Re: Aptitude/Grub Problem -- Is this a bug?

2006-02-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 25 February 2006 06:26, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:19:19 -0500 > Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > Okay. That's easy and makes sense. But there is still a problem, > > but may be more with grub. I went through the man pages of grub > > and di

Re: Aptitude/Grub Problem -- Is this a bug?

2006-02-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 17:19:19 -0500 Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Okay. That's easy and makes sense. But there is still a problem, but > may be more with grub. I went through the man pages of grub and did a > lot of research to figure out how to make the changes I needed. No

Re: Aptitude/Grub Problem -- Is this a bug?

2006-02-24 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 24 February 2006 16:56, Justin Guerin wrote: > On Friday 24 February 2006 12:07, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Friday 24 February 2006 13:24, Justin Guerin wrote: > > > On Thursday 23 February 2006 18:23, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > [snip] > > > > You aren't given a choice of keeping your old grub

Re: Aptitude/Grub Problem -- Is this a bug?

2006-02-24 Thread Justin Guerin
On Friday 24 February 2006 12:07, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Friday 24 February 2006 13:24, Justin Guerin wrote: > > On Thursday 23 February 2006 18:23, Hal Vaughan wrote: [snip] > > > > You aren't given a choice of keeping your old grub config file, > > because without an update, you can't boot the n

Re: Aptitude/Grub Problem -- Is this a bug?

2006-02-24 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 24 February 2006 13:24, Justin Guerin wrote: > On Thursday 23 February 2006 18:23, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > I posted earlier this week about some problems I had after doing: > > > > aptitude update && aptitude upgrade > > > > on a Sarge system. It required rebooting and was immediately > >

Re: Aptitude/Grub Problem -- Is this a bug?

2006-02-24 Thread Justin Guerin
On Friday 24 February 2006 11:51, Chris Lale wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: [snip] > > A couple of thoughts come to mind. I don't kow if they will help you. > > > > 1. Use > > > > aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade > > > > instead of aptitude update && aptitude upgrade. This will deal > > intell

Re: Aptitude/Grub Problem -- Is this a bug?

2006-02-24 Thread Justin Guerin
On Thursday 23 February 2006 18:23, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I posted earlier this week about some problems I had after doing: > > aptitude update && aptitude upgrade > > on a Sarge system. It required rebooting and was immediately unbootable > -- ON SARGE!!! This is the very stuff I am using stable

Re: Aptitude/Grub Problem -- Is this a bug?

2006-02-24 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 24 February 2006 11:51, Chris Lale wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > I posted earlier this week about some problems I had after doing: > > > > aptitude update && aptitude upgrade > > > > on a Sarge system. It required rebooting and was immediately > > unbootable -- ON SARGE!!! This is t

Re: Aptitude/Grub Problem -- Is this a bug?

2006-02-24 Thread Chris Lale
Hal Vaughan wrote: I posted earlier this week about some problems I had after doing: aptitude update && aptitude upgrade on a Sarge system. It required rebooting and was immediately unbootable -- ON SARGE!!! This is the very stuff I am using stable to avoid! I lost a day tracking it dow

Aptitude/Grub Problem -- Is this a bug?

2006-02-23 Thread Hal Vaughan
I posted earlier this week about some problems I had after doing: aptitude update && aptitude upgrade on a Sarge system. It required rebooting and was immediately unbootable -- ON SARGE!!! This is the very stuff I am using stable to avoid! I lost a day tracking it down and finally found that

Re: GRUB problem

2005-09-28 Thread Mike McCarty
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 03:11:18PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: I know I created a GRUB floppy some time back. I'd have to find some old notes to remember the exact steps. Mike This way from /usr/share/doc/grub/README.Debian.gz cat /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2

Re: GRUB problem

2005-09-28 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 03:11:18PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > > I know I created a GRUB floppy some time back. I'd have to find > some old notes to remember the exact steps. > > Mike This way from /usr/share/doc/grub/README.Debian.gz cat /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 > /dev/fd0 works f

Re: GRUB problem

2005-09-28 Thread Mike McCarty
Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 10:34:43AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: described. and since, i've adopted a habit of keeping a GRUB boot disk around. (it's fairly trivial to create a bootable floppy. only slightly tougher to create a bootable CD.) i then use grub shell, to do

Re: bios - Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-28 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: :-) > > you keep going to filesytem > > No, you do. i see we're assumign too many stuff .. i never once said aything but servo info being the same as fs info .. etc..etc > > am not talking about the head alignment and gaps or anything > > B

Re: bios - Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-28 Thread Mike McCarty
Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] Yes, I'm talking about servo data, which cannot be seen by dd or any other normal (or even driver level) accesses. i think we;re talking about the different kidns of servo data ... created/maintained at different lev

Re: GRUB problem

2005-09-28 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 10:34:43AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > >described. and since, i've adopted a habit of keeping a GRUB boot disk > >around. (it's fairly trivial to create a bootable floppy. only slightly > >tougher to create a bootable CD.) i then use grub shell, to do a 'setup' > >of >

Re: bios - Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-28 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya On Wed, 28 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: > You are obviously smart > and intelligent, but you weren't THERE. I was. i been playing with them removable 14" disk platters and stripping um and reassemble um and stick it back into the dg/dec/si washing machines > > the disk controller on th

Re: GRUB problem

2005-09-28 Thread Mike McCarty
anoop aryal wrote: On Tuesday 27 September 2005 07:05 pm, Jeremy Merritt wrote: I have been having a problem getting my GRUB bootloader to return on boot. No matter what I do, it keeps going to XP. I consulted with other people on this list and got some good input. But have run into a dead end

Re: bios - Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-28 Thread Mike McCarty
Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya mike Hi yourself. Glad to meet you. I hope this message doesn't seem pugnacious. It isn't intended to be. But your response seems to me to contain some factual and comprehensional errors. Since this is a technical forum, I don't feel comfortable allowing what I percieve

Re: GRUB problem

2005-09-28 Thread anoop aryal
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 07:05 pm, Jeremy Merritt wrote: > I have been having a problem getting my GRUB > bootloader to return on boot. No matter what I do, it > keeps going to XP. I consulted with other people on > this list and got some good input. But have run into a > dead end again. Can so

bios - Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-28 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya mike On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: > > > > the "tracking info" is dependant on the filesystem > > It is not. i beg to differ ... different fs has different disk structure to tune itself for various things to make it better or worst than other fs > It is used by the uControll

Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-27 Thread Edward J. Shornock
Mike McCarty wrote: [...] So, here is a brief tutorial on disc partitioning and how boot proceeds. [...] Thanks for the explanation, it was very useful. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Jeremy Merritt wrote: Wow, what a great explanation. I have read through it, but am going to do another to make sure it's all taken in. Thanks. Thank you. I realize that it is very condensed and long. But even so, it glosses over quite a bit of detail (e.g. LBA and the fact that one can actuall

Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya mike :-) i'm even more sleepy now :-) HEY! I SAID it was long! :-) but, some comments On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: I think you need a little more information about how boot is accomplished on IBM PC style computers. if a user can't get the machine

Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-27 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya mike :-) i'm even more sleepy now :-) but, some comments On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Mike McCarty wrote: > I think you need a little more information about how > boot is accomplished on IBM PC style computers. if a user can't get the machine to boot .. this much detail is probably more than th

Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-27 Thread Jeremy Merritt
Wow, what a great explanation. I have read through it, but am going to do another to make sure it's all taken in. Thanks. --- Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeremy Merritt wrote: > > I have been having a problem getting my GRUB > > bootloader to return on boot. No matter what I do, > i

Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Mike McCarty wrote: [some stuff about formatting discs and boot] I forgot one more layer of format: OS install. A volume may have a file system without an OS on it. Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} This message made from 100% recycled bits. You have fo

Re: GRUB problem (long, description of BOOT)

2005-09-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Jeremy Merritt wrote: I have been having a problem getting my GRUB bootloader to return on boot. No matter what I do, it keeps going to XP. I consulted with other people on this list and got some good input. But have run into a dead end again. Can someone analyze these steps and tell me what I'm

Re: GRUB problem

2005-09-27 Thread Art Edwards
If you can boot from cdrom, use cfdisk to toggle the boot properties of the partitions (as root, of course). Art Edwards Jeremy Merritt wrote: If having multiple partitions is the problem or part of the problem, how do I make /dev/hda2 bootable and make the others not bootable? Is that the

Re: GRUB problem

2005-09-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Jeremy Merritt wrote: > If having multiple partitions is the problem or part > of the problem, NOT the problem > how do I make /dev/hda2 bootable and > make the others not bootable? take it out with the bios so that it doesn't check it or # delete the M

Re: HELP- Grub problem, I can't load WInXP SOLVED

2005-09-27 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Andy wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 September 2005 12:42, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > > Since your WinXP on /dev/hda1 is a FAT32 partition, one thing that might > > work is to use the backup boot sector that is kept on FAT32 file systems > > to restore the WinXP boot sector on /dev/hda1. > > > > dd if=/dev/hda

Re: GRUB problem

2005-09-27 Thread Jeremy Merritt
If having multiple partitions is the problem or part of the problem, how do I make /dev/hda2 bootable and make the others not bootable? Is that the only thing that needs to be done in addition to the other steps? --- Art Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeremy Merritt wrote: > > >I have been

Re: GRUB problem

2005-09-27 Thread Art Edwards
Jeremy Merritt wrote: I have been having a problem getting my GRUB bootloader to return on boot. No matter what I do, it keeps going to XP. I consulted with other people on this list and got some good input. But have run into a dead end again. Can someone analyze these steps and tell me what I'm

GRUB problem

2005-09-27 Thread Jeremy Merritt
I have been having a problem getting my GRUB bootloader to return on boot. No matter what I do, it keeps going to XP. I consulted with other people on this list and got some good input. But have run into a dead end again. Can someone analyze these steps and tell me what I'm doing wrong, or what I n

Re: HELP- Grub problem, I can't load WInXP SOLVED

2005-09-27 Thread Andy
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 12:42, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > Since your WinXP on /dev/hda1 is a FAT32 partition, one thing that might > work is to use the backup boot sector that is kept on FAT32 file systems > to restore the WinXP boot sector on /dev/hda1. > > dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hda1 bs=512 count

Re: HELP- Grub problem, I can't load WInXP

2005-09-26 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Andy wrote: > > On Monday 26 September 2005 3:17, Dennis Stosberg wrote: > > Windows XP is on /dev/hda, which is (hd0,0) in GRUB's notation. So, > > if you install the GRUB boot sector into /dev/hda1, you overwrite > > Windows XP's boot sector in that partition. That means you won't be > > able

Re: HELP- Grub problem, I can't load WInXP

2005-09-26 Thread Andy
On Monday 26 September 2005 3:19, Roby wrote: > Add the hide/unhide commands shown below: > > title Windows NT/2000/XP > > hide (hd0,4) > unhide (hd0,0) > > > root(hd0,0) > > savedefault > > makeactive > > chainloader +1 > > > > title Windows 95/98/Me > > hide

Re: HELP- Grub problem, I can't load WInXP

2005-09-26 Thread Andy
On Monday 26 September 2005 3:17, Dennis Stosberg wrote: > Windows XP is on /dev/hda, which is (hd0,0) in GRUB's notation. So, > if you install the GRUB boot sector into /dev/hda1, you overwrite > Windows XP's boot sector in that partition. That means you won't be > able to boot Windows XP at all

Re: HELP- Grub problem, I can't load WInXP

2005-09-26 Thread Roby
Add the hide/unhide commands shown below: > title Windows NT/2000/XP hide (hd0,4) unhide (hd0,0) > root(hd0,0) > savedefault > makeactive > chainloader +1 > > title Windows 95/98/Me hide (hd0,0) unhide (hd0,4) > root(hd0,4) > savedefault > makea

Re: HELP- Grub problem, I can't load WInXP

2005-09-26 Thread Dennis Stosberg
Am 26.09.2005 um 14:17 schrieb Andy: > Anyway, here is the deal: > I have a few drives, one with win98 (don't ask!), one with win xp, and one > with Debian Sid. I had grub happily booting everything until recently when > WinXP experienced some HDD corruption and I had to do a repair. Obviously,

HELP- Grub problem, I can't load WInXP

2005-09-26 Thread Andy
I'm sure that to many people on this list, not being able to run WinXP would be considered a good thing (TM), but trust me, I have lots of important reasons for needing it :) Anyway, here is the deal: I have a few drives, one with win98 (don't ask!), one with win xp, and one with Debian Sid. I

Re: Grub problem

2005-07-12 Thread Alvin Oga
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Eugen Wintersberger wrote: > (I'm not sure if this was the exact error message). If I do the > same installation procedure but install LILO the machine reboots as > expected (means that the bootloader works). if lilo works ( boots properly ), than there is nothing wrong wi

Grub problem

2005-07-12 Thread Eugen Wintersberger
Hi there I have a problem with GRUB on one of our school machines. When I install Sarge with default settings (meaning I press only enter at all options during installation) and install GRUB into the MBR the machine cannot reboot. GRUB reports something like GRUB hardisk error! (I'm not sure

Re: Sarge (3.10) New Install - Grub problem

2005-06-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 08:30:47PM +0100, Chris Robinson wrote: > Hi > > I was running woody on my hda disk (120GB). I got a new disk 20GB(hdb). > > So I thought I would run Sarge on hdb, and mount my woody disk as required > to > get any files I needed. I therefore do not need dual boot. I

Sarge (3.10) New Install - Grub problem

2005-06-22 Thread Chris Robinson
Hi I was running woody on my hda disk (120GB). I got a new disk 20GB(hdb). So I thought I would run Sarge on hdb, and mount my woody disk as required to get any files I needed. I therefore do not need dual boot. I can install Sarge (3.10) fine but then I get to the question of where to in

sarge install grub problem

2005-05-29 Thread Rodney Richison
Have a buddy that just called. He's having trouble getting debian testing installed. On first reboot, He gets no grub screen at all, the system simply reboots. As I recall, he has a epox board with onboard raid and the hard drive is hooked to the raid port. (He's a combo cd and a regular cd-rom

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