On 29/09/13 10:34, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Sun, Sep 29, 2013 at 09:00:00AM +1000, Terry Duell wrote:
here is the disc layout Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 2048 40962047 20480000 83 Linux /dev/sda2 40962048 229378047 94208000 5 Extended /dev/sda3 229378048 234440703 2531328 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda5 40964096 229378047 94206976 83 Linux
I thought I'd try "mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/boot" just to see what happens, and when I do I get... "mount: you must specify the filesystem type" , so thought it best to not separately mount /mnt/boot
it looks like your /boot IS just a subdirectory on / but can you post a copy of your /etc/fstab ?
went through the whole process, purged grub and reinstalled. "apt-get install grub" says it is going to install grub-legacy, which doesn't seem right, so installed grub-pc instead, but at the end of the
yep, grub-pc is correct. mint's grub package must be slightly different to debian's, on my debian sid machine it depends on grub-pc rather than grub-legacy.
Terry is using LMDE - Linux Mint Debian Edition. From the LM website LMDE is: - ...a semi-rolling distribution based on Debian Testing. - It’s available in both 32 and 64-bit as a live DVD with MATE or Cinnamon. - The purpose of LMDE is to look identical to the main edition and to provide the same functionality while using Debian as a base. As it happens I'm sending this from a laptop with LMDE on awaiting a number of updates, inc grup-pc but also update to the latest release, UP7. I see in the release notes that it says do not do any updates until you've upgraded the Update Pack to version 7, then do package updates.