Re: Boot Repair. Still Going Round and Round.

2021-06-04 Thread Martin McCormick
I placed the ailing drive back on a good Linux system and mounted it as /dev/sdd1 /mnt and ran the following commands on it: #!/bin/sh #mount the drive being repaired. Uncomment lines as needed. sudo mount /dev/sdd1 /mnt cd /mnt/boot #installing to the mounted disk sudo grub-install \ --boot-

Re: Boot Repair

2021-06-03 Thread Dan Ritter
Martin McCormick wrote: > This is actually a systemic problem these days when > dealing with sick machines. Nobody is selling new desktops > with RS-232 native serial ports and that is fine as long as > there is an alternative way such as a bluetooth interface or ssh > network connection.

Re: Boot Repair

2021-06-03 Thread Martin McCormick
Weaver writes: > Well, let us know how it goes, because I've noted a few visually > disadvantaged users on the list, and they would find the reference > useful. I have found out that grub is very accessible if one has defined a serial console and there is a working serial port on the targ

Re: Boot Repair

2021-06-02 Thread Weaver
On 03-06-2021 13:02, Martin McCormick wrote: > Weaver writes: >> https://www.supergrubdisk.org/ > > The site recommends downloading the hybrid version of > grub2disk so that is what I did because all the Linux boxes I > have are x86 hardware and have CD technology built in. > > This

Re: Boot Repair

2021-06-02 Thread Martin McCormick
Weaver writes: > https://www.supergrubdisk.org/ The site recommends downloading the hybrid version of grub2disk so that is what I did because all the Linux boxes I have are x86 hardware and have CD technology built in. This is quite an interesting creation. The ISO image is a we

Re: Boot Repair

2021-06-02 Thread Weaver
On 03-06-2021 05:59, Martin McCormick wrote: > Weaver writes: >> On 03-06-2021 03:59, Martin McCormick wrote: >> > Is there any free utility that can run in Linux which helps one >> > rebuild a corrupted boot configuration? >> >> https://www.supergrubdisk.org/ > > Thank you very much as you

Re: Boot Repair

2021-06-02 Thread Martin McCormick
Weaver writes: > On 03-06-2021 03:59, Martin McCormick wrote: > > Is there any free utility that can run in Linux which helps one > > rebuild a corrupted boot configuration? > > https://www.supergrubdisk.org/ Thank you very much as you did answer my question perfectly but I did not stop

Re: Boot Repair

2021-06-02 Thread Weaver
On 03-06-2021 03:59, Martin McCormick wrote: > Is there any free utility that can run in Linux which helps one > rebuild a corrupted boot configuration? https://www.supergrubdisk.org/ Cheers! Harry. -- ‘The issues are too important to be left for the voters’. ― Henry Kissinger