Rob Owens <row...@ptd.net> wrote:
|> You might want to keep a copy of this handy:
|> http://www.supergrubdisk.org/
Indeed. But I think I sorted this out (or at least I have succeeded in making
the
system boot at least once). In case anyone finds themselves in a similar
situation,
this was what worked for me:
. booted from the Debian net install CD
. selected Advanced from the initial menu of options
. selected rescue mode
. went through the first few stages of the install process
. got to the point where it offers to drop you into a shell
. chose the option in which the root file system is mounted on /target
. then in the shell:
. fdisk -l to check which device is normally mounted on /boot (a
separate
partition on this system). As it happens, that's /dev/sda1 in
this case.
. mount -t ext2 /dev/sda1 /target/boot
. chroot /target
. grub-install /dev/sda (completed without errors)
. grub-install --recheck /dev/sda (completed without errors)
. Ctl-d (to get out of the chroot)
. exit (to get out of the shell and back to the menu)
. chose the Reboot option from the menu
And the thing booted fine this time.
Thanks a lot to all who offered help and advice,
Jim
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