Excellent. Time to resurrect LERT?
On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 01:13:08AM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
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> Ok, the solution was easy. From the "grub rescue>" prompt, I had to
> poke around to see what was what, and where.
>
> My laptop's /boot partition was coming up as "(hd0,msdos1)",
> and when I
Reminds me of my recent difficulty getting Mint installed onto a RAID
partition:
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=225204
Similarly with Ubuntu. You'd think they would make that easier
Rod
On 07/16/2016 01:35 AM, Bill Broadley wrote:
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> Heh, I'm impressed, that's pretty
Heh, I'm impressed, that's pretty painful and tricky, but you managed it.
An alternative just booting a rescue thumb drive (like most ISO images
these days). Normally they have a "reinstall grub" as well as spawning
a shell option. If you spawn a shell just run grub-install /dev/sda.
So a
Ok, the solution was easy. From the "grub rescue>" prompt, I had to
poke around to see what was what, and where.
My laptop's /boot partition was coming up as "(hd0,msdos1)",
and when I did an "ls (hd0,msdos1)", I saw things like:
grub/
memtest86+.bin
...
vmlinuz-3.13.0-51-generic
init