On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 09:27:25PM +0200, Martin Bagge / brother wrote: > I am not sure but I do think I did a dist-upgrade in sid and installd > grub2 to replace the old solution. I haven't used the computer for > some days now but it can not boot anymore. > > Right after "Welcome to grub!" it drops to the grub rescue prompt. > I can list my drives with ls. > I can set root to hd0,1 and list the file system for / as far as I can > tell. > When doing insmod /boot/grub/linux.mod I get the grub_xputs error above.
This means that your GRUB core image, as installed by grub-install, and your GRUB modules in /boot/grub are out of sync. This happens when you grub-install to a location other than that from which your computer actually boots. Please show the output of: debconf-show grub-pc fdisk -l -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org