On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 09:13:34 +1000, Terry Duell <tduell@iinet.net.au> wrote:
Hello Craig,
On Mon, 30 Sep 2013 08:35:42 +1000, Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> wrote:
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 03:53:28PM +1000, Terry Duell wrote:
Here are my /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/grub.cfg Hope is OK to attach them to email.
about the only thing left that i can think of to try is to type in (a simplified version of) one of the boot menu items at the grub prompt.
insmod gzio insmod part_msdos insmod ext2 set root='(hd0,msdos1)' search --no-floppy --file --set=root /dev/sda1 linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.10-2-amd64 root=/dev/sda1 ro quiet initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.10-2-amd64
Well I'm now getting "grub rescue>" when I boot, which reports "error: file not found" at the first command, above. I'll do a bit research on "grub rescue" to see if that leads to anything, otherwise I'll re-try the previous process that you described for me, including purging grub packages, and see if that gets me to the "grub>" prompt, or (faint hope) better.
Not much luck finding any useful info on how to progress from "grub rescue>" prompt. I went through the whole process again, purging grub, and then reinstalling grub-pc. A curious thing, when I try "grub-install /dev/sda" it says grub-install not available, install grub-legacy. If I do that I then end up with all sorts of stuff in /boot/grub from both versions. Maybe I'm assuming too much. Having run "apt-get install grub-pc" ( which then asks me to run "apt-get -f install") is it necessary to run "grub-install" or has that already been done? (the saga lingers on :-) Cheers, -- Regards, Terry Duell