On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 04:24:39PM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > Hi > > My wife let her Debian machine get over 450 packages behind before I > caught it. What a mess. The last problem is that when booting up the > Welcome to Grub notice appears and then: > error:file not found > Entering rescue mode > grubrescue> > > If I run "ls" I find that the root directory should be (hd0,msdos1) > and that grub is under the /boot directory. Therefore I run: > set prefix="(hd0,msdos1)/boot/grub" <enter> > set root="(hd0,msdos1)" <enter> > insmod normal <enter> > normal <enter> > and the system boots up and runs fine; until I reboot and then the > mess starts all over again. How do I fix this. I suspect that I need > to somehow reset the grub file but that's just a SWAG. Help!!!!! > > Oh yes, we are running Debian Wheezy (stable) and KDE desktop and > fdisk gives the following: > > root@supercrunch:/media# fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors > Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > Disk identifier: 0x000b79ef > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 * 2048 960036863 480017408 83 Linux > /dev/sda2 960038910 976771071 8366081 5 Extended > /dev/sda5 960038912 976771071 8366080 82 Linux swap / > Solaris > > > > Gary R.
Hi, Can you share with us the output of `grub-mkconfig`? For reference I link the Debian wiki page on GRUB: http://wiki.debian.org/Grub -- staticsafe O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org Please don't top post - http://goo.gl/YrmAb Don't CC me! I'm subscribed to whatever list I just posted on. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130522002928.ga20...@uriel.asininetech.com
