On Thu, May 08, 2025 at 03:38:20AM +0000, xuser wrote: > On Wed, 7 May 2025, Charles Curley wrote: > > On Thu, 8 May 2025 02:51:20 +0000 xuser wrote: > > > > > After an libreoffice upgrade on may 7, My debian system does not > > > boot, and just shows the word "GRUB" on a black screen. > > > > I doubt it was the libreoffice upgrade that did it. It might have been > > something else that was upgraded at the same time. > > > > If you can boot the netinst CD image, you should be able to run the > > rescue facility on it. Use that to run update-grub, and try again. > > > I tries that and also tried re-running grub-install > and it still did not work.
My bet is on: The grub-install was done to wrong boot disk. (And "wrong boot disk" being not the boot disk.) > I installed debian 12.2 along side the other one and now it works Thanks for reporting back. Yes, a re-install gets a Linux system back to a working Linux system. For what it is worth: Installing Linux did learn me a lot. Groeten Geert Stappers -- Silence is hard to parse
