On 05/21/2013 07:24 PM, 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.
I am no GRUB expert...but it seems to me you should boot the
machine..get into a root terminal and run update-grub.
Or you can boot into rescue mode and do the same thing.
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Cheers
Frank
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