On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:55:21 +0300 Γιώργος Πάλλας <gp...@ccf.auth.gr> wrote:
> Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Rashly, after today's upgrade I followed the exhortation in the grub > > legacy package to move to grub2. I now cannot boot at all; I just get > > the message "Grub" and nothing more. > > Don't remember now about the boot message from grub, need to look, but if it says grub instead of grub 2 in may be that the files installed are from grub2 but the boot sector itself is grub ... > > Looking at /boot/grub with my rescue disk I see all sorts of files I > > don't recognize but no menu.lst. > > > > Is there any way to restore things? Please don't tell me I have to > > reinstall! > > > > Anthony > > You don't have to re-install your system, that's for sure. > Since you chose to upgrade to grub2, spend some time reading its > documentation and then from a live cd that supports grub2 try to make it > function. > Needless to say, you can always revert back to legacy grub and rewrite > menu.lst (I can't understand who deleted that). there is not menu.lst in grub2, look in /boot/grub/grub.cfg for the current configuration although it is generated from files in /etc/grub.d and /etc/default/grub using /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig based on the start of that file > No worries though, your system is there, waiting for the right > bootloader config in order to boot again... > > G. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
