Re: Problems with grub2/initramfs-tools in chroot

2014-11-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 10:59:11PM +, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 21 November 2014 22:43:11 Ross Boylan wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Scott Ferguson > > > > wrote: > > > On 21/11/14 15:13, Ross Boylan wrote: > > >> Over the last week I've repeatedly found my machine unbootable,

Re: Problems with grub2/initramfs-tools in chroot

2014-11-22 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 21 nov 14, 14:43:11, Ross Boylan wrote: > > grub needs to know where it should jump to. I don't know how it can > figure that out from inside a chroot. For example, say /boot inside > the chroot is mounted from sdb2. To the chroot, it's just part of the > filesystem. How is grub-install t

Re: Problems with grub2/initramfs-tools in chroot

2014-11-22 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/11/14 19:50, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Saturday 22 November 2014 00:47:00 Scott Ferguson wrote: >> On 22/11/14 09:59, Lisi Reisz wrote: >>> On Friday 21 November 2014 22:43:11 Ross Boylan wrote: On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 21/11/14 15:13, Ross

Re: Problems with grub2/initramfs-tools in chroot

2014-11-22 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Saturday 22 November 2014 00:47:00 Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 22/11/14 09:59, Lisi Reisz wrote: > > On Friday 21 November 2014 22:43:11 Ross Boylan wrote: > >> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Scott Ferguson > >> > >> wrote: > >>> On 21/11/14 15:13, Ross Boylan wrote: > Over the last week

Re: Problems with grub2/initramfs-tools in chroot

2014-11-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/11/14 09:43, Ross Boylan wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Scott Ferguson > wrote: >> On 21/11/14 15:13, Ross Boylan wrote: >>> Over the last week I've repeatedly found my machine unbootable, >>> in the sense I couldn't get to a working system without >>> intervention. Sometimes I c

Re: Problems with grub2/initramfs-tools in chroot

2014-11-21 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 22/11/14 09:59, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 21 November 2014 22:43:11 Ross Boylan wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Scott Ferguson >> >> wrote: >>> On 21/11/14 15:13, Ross Boylan wrote: Over the last week I've repeatedly found my machine unbootable, in the sense I couldn't

Re: Problems with grub2/initramfs-tools in chroot

2014-11-21 Thread Joel Roth
Ross Boylan wrote: > Over the last week I've repeatedly found my machine unbootable, in the > sense I couldn't get to a working system without intervention. > Sometimes I couldn't even get the grub2 menu. > > Things are OK now, but I'm trying to understand what went wrong so I > don't do it again.

Re: Problems with grub2/initramfs-tools in chroot

2014-11-21 Thread Ross Boylan
I thought maybe "tick" would be followed by "tock". I think that's how Intel refers to its chip generations. Thank you for increasing my cross-cultural understanding; I'm from the US. Now, back to my understanding of grub and initramfs-tools... Ross -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-req

Re: Problems with grub2/initramfs-tools in chroot

2014-11-21 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2014 21 Nov 17:01 -0600, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 21 November 2014 22:43:11 Ross Boylan wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Scott Ferguson > > > > wrote: > > > On 21/11/14 15:13, Ross Boylan wrote: > > >> Over the last week I've repeatedly found my machine unbootable, in the > >

Re: Problems with grub2/initramfs-tools in chroot

2014-11-21 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 21 November 2014 22:43:11 Ross Boylan wrote: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Scott Ferguson > > wrote: > > On 21/11/14 15:13, Ross Boylan wrote: > >> Over the last week I've repeatedly found my machine unbootable, in the > >> sense I couldn't get to a working system without interventi

Re: Problems with grub2/initramfs-tools in chroot

2014-11-21 Thread Ross Boylan
On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 9:11 PM, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 21/11/14 15:13, Ross Boylan wrote: >> Over the last week I've repeatedly found my machine unbootable, in the >> sense I couldn't get to a working system without intervention. >> Sometimes I couldn't even get the grub2 menu. > > > Tick I

Re: Problems with grub2/initramfs-tools in chroot

2014-11-20 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 21/11/14 15:13, Ross Boylan wrote: > Over the last week I've repeatedly found my machine unbootable, in the > sense I couldn't get to a working system without intervention. > Sometimes I couldn't even get the grub2 menu. Tick > > Things are OK now, but I'm trying to understand what went wron

Problems with grub2/initramfs-tools in chroot

2014-11-20 Thread Ross Boylan
Over the last week I've repeatedly found my machine unbootable, in the sense I couldn't get to a working system without intervention. Sometimes I couldn't even get the grub2 menu. Things are OK now, but I'm trying to understand what went wrong so I don't do it again. I had multiple disks and was