On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 4:40 AM, lina <lina.lastn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Today I tried to install debian from a CD which dated back to 2011. > > Everything went fine, > > partition -> and then it arrived at the set up the mirror, I just choose > default and think later changed in the /etc/apt. > It started to download from that default ftp mirror. > It was choked there for half a hour, the progress bar didn't proceed and it > is said waiting ... > > The only thing I could do at that time, was took the CD out and reboot. > Which I shouldn't have done that. > > After reboot, it showed me > > grub rescue> > > when I tried > > grub rescue> ls (hd0, msdos5) > > error: unknown filesystem.
By default, (hd0, msdos5) is a swap partition. You need to run "set" and "ls" when you're dropped to a "grub rescue" prompt in order to determine the "set ..." commands to run. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=SwZoWMY9tzZE60YL6pz=z42jq+d1ycayhckjml-66f...@mail.gmail.com
