I just installed Trisquel Mini on a laptop with sda1 as "/", sda6 as "/home",
and sda5 as swap. I intended to leave /home as is.
I actually did this twice; the first time I installed I didn't partition "/".
When booting, I got the Mageia grub page as before the install. So I
installed again, this time formatting "/". After this, I get a grub error:
file '/boot/grub2/i386-pc/normal.mod' not found. Entering rescue mode
After searching I found how to boot:
set prefix=(hd0,1)/boot/grub
set root=(hd0,1)
insmod normal
normal
and then the laptop boots to the log-in screen.
Now, however, it will not accept the password I gave for user "jim" when I
installed, perhaps because the directory "/home/jim" in sda6 hasn't been
assigned to this user yet. Okay, I'll log in as root and fix things...but
wait, this is an Ubuntu-based system, there is no root user. Or is there a
way to log in as root?
So it seems I have two issues:
1. How to fix grub?
2. How to assign /home/jim to user jim and get login to work?
Can this system be salvaged?
Thank you!
Jim G
