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: > > 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 all I had to do at that point was tell grub how to boot: >> >> set root=(hd0,msdos1) >> set prefix=(hd0,msdos1)/grub >> insmod normal >> insmod linux >> linux (hd0,msdos1)/vmlinuz-3.13.0-51-generic >> initrd (hd0,msdos1)/initrd.img-3.13.0-51-generic >> boot >> >> A bunch of kernel boot-up noise appeared, and I was prompted to enter >> the passphrase to decrypt my root (/) directory, and after a moment, >> my KDE login screen appeared! >> >> I brought up a shell, and run "sudo grub-install /dev/sda" >> (notice, not "/dev/sda1"). >> >> Rebooted, and here I am. Whew! > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech