Re: grub2 boot menu

Le vendredi 25 juin 2021 à 11:40 -0400, Cindy Sue Causey a écrit : > On 6/24/21, didier gaumet wrote: > [...] > > 'GRUB_OS_PROBER_SKIP_LIST' > >     List of space-separated FS UUIDs of filesystems to be ignored > > from > > os-prober output.  For efi chainloaders it's @" [...] > it would

Re: grub2 boot menu

On 6/24/21, didier gaumet wrote: > > Hello, > > Grub can ignore all or only certain OSes that os-prober detects by > setting up the desired behaviour in /etc/default/grub > > from the grub info page: > [...]" > 'GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER' > Normally, 'grub-mkconfig' will try to use the external

Re: grub2 boot menu

On 24/6/21 11:51 pm, mick crane wrote: hello, I was dual booting but got another PC so I can have windows and debain at the same time. Just for tidiness of booting I'd have liked to comment out the submenu entry in /boot/grub/grub.cfg for windows just in case I wanted to put it back but not

Re: grub2 boot menu

Hello,  Grub can ignore all or only certain OSes that os-prober detects by setting up the desired behaviour in /etc/default/grub from the grub info page: [...]" 'GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER' Normally, 'grub-mkconfig' will try to use the external 'os-prober' program, if installed, to discov

Re: grub2 boot menu

On Thu 24 Jun 2021 at 14:51:06 (+0100), mick crane wrote: > I was dual booting but got another PC so I can have windows and debain > at the same time. Just for tidiness of booting I'd have liked to > comment out the submenu entry in /boot/grub/grub.cfg for windows just > in case I wanted to put it

Re: grub2 boot menu

On 2021-06-24 at 10:32, Felix Miata wrote: > mick crane composed on 2021-06-24 14:51 (UTC+0100): > >> I was dual booting but got another PC so I can have windows and debain >> at the same time. Just for tidiness of booting I'd have liked to comment >> out the submenu entry in /boot/grub/grub.cf

Re: grub2 boot menu

mick crane composed on 2021-06-24 14:51 (UTC+0100): > I was dual booting but got another PC so I can have windows and debain > at the same time. Just for tidiness of booting I'd have liked to comment > out the submenu entry in /boot/grub/grub.cfg for windows just in case I > wanted to put it ba

Re: grub2 boot menu

On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 02:51:06PM +0100, mick crane wrote: > I was dual booting but got another PC so I can have windows and debain at > the same time. Just for tidiness of booting I'd have liked to comment out > the submenu entry in /boot/grub/grub.cfg for windows just in case I wanted > to put i

Re: Grub2 on clean Stretch install

On 2017-06-27 17:37 +0200, Floris wrote: > Just wondering, why has the grub2-common package two update-grub files? > > One is just a symlink to the other > ls -asl update-grub* > 4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 64 jun 23 12:35 update-grub > 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 jun 23 14:47 update-grub2 -> update-

Re: Grub2 on clean Stretch install

On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 06:14:10PM +0200, Floris wrote: Op Tue, 27 Jun 2017 18:04:19 +0200 schreef David Wright : On Tue 27 Jun 2017 at 17:37:53 (+0200), Floris wrote: Just wondering, why has the grub2-common package two update-grub files? One is just a symlink to the other ls -asl update-gr

Re: Grub2 on clean Stretch install

Op Tue, 27 Jun 2017 18:04:19 +0200 schreef David Wright : On Tue 27 Jun 2017 at 17:37:53 (+0200), Floris wrote: Just wondering, why has the grub2-common package two update-grub files? One is just a symlink to the other ls -asl update-grub* 4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 64 jun 23 12:35 update-grub

Re: Grub2 on clean Stretch install

On Tue 27 Jun 2017 at 17:37:53 (+0200), Floris wrote: > Just wondering, why has the grub2-common package two update-grub files? > > One is just a symlink to the other > ls -asl update-grub* > 4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 64 jun 23 12:35 update-grub > 0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 jun 23 14:47 update-gru

Re: grub2 security problem

David Christensen a écrit : > > A good defense against an attacker with physical access is LUKS > encryption on all partitions except /boot. Ecryption alone does not protect agains attack scenarios involving /boot tampering.

Re: grub2 security problem

On Sunday 20 December 2015 09:51:04 to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 04:08:30PM +0100, Anders Andersson wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 5:00 AM, David Christensen > > > > wrote: > > > Another, additional, option is self-encrypting drives (SED), which > > > are operating system

Re: grub2 security problem

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 04:08:30PM +0100, Anders Andersson wrote: > On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 5:00 AM, David Christensen > wrote: > > > > Another, additional, option is self-encrypting drives (SED), which are > > operating system agnostic and protect th

Re: grub2 security problem

On Sun, Dec 20, 2015 at 5:00 AM, David Christensen wrote: > > Another, additional, option is self-encrypting drives (SED), which are > operating system agnostic and protect the entire contents of drive with zero > CPU overhead. Emphasis on the word "additional" here. Unless you have access to the

Re: grub2 security problem

On 12/19/2015 08:59 AM, Joe Pfeiffer wrote: Michael Fothergill writes: I noticed some articles suggesting that there is a security problem in grub2. E.g. http://thehackernews.com/2015/12/hack-linux-grub-password.html ​Is there any substance to this? Yes, for the microscopic proportion of p

Re: grub2 security problem

Michael Fothergill writes: > Dear Folks, > > I noticed some articles suggesting that there is a security problem in > grub2. > > E.g. > > http://thehackernews.com/2015/12/hack-linux-grub-password.html > > ​Is there any substance to this? Yes, for the microscopic proportion of people who put a pa

Re: grub2 security problem

On 19 December 2015 at 11:50, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 09:35:57 + > Michael Fothergill wrote: > > Hello Michael, > > >​Is there any substance to this? > ​ > Yes, but it's been rectified. See > > for the f

Re: grub2 security problem

On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 09:35:57 + Michael Fothergill wrote: Hello Michael, >​Is there any substance to this? ​ Yes, but it's been rectified. See for the full security announcement. Further, I suggest subscribing to the Deb

Re: grub2 security problem

On Sat, 19 Dec 2015 09:35:57 + Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Folks, > > I noticed some articles suggesting that there is a security problem in > grub2. > > E.g. > > http://thehackernews.com/2015/12/hack-linux-grub-password.html > > ​Is there any substance to this? > There was an upda

Re: grub2 security problem

Michael Fothergill [2015-12-19 09:35:57Z] wrote: > I noticed some articles suggesting that there is a security problem in > grub2. > http://thehackernews.com/2015/12/hack-linux-grub-password.html > > ​Is there any substance to this? Didn't check myself but it seems so: https://www.debian.org/se

Re: Grub2 Timeout Setting

On Sun, 2015-06-07 at 19:20 +0800, mudongliang wrote: > Just as what you said , I should see the boot menu by the setting of > LinuxMint. > This setting will wait 10 seconds for me to press key to continue! > Why I can not see the boot menu? And when I delete the > GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT and GRUB_HID

Re: Grub2 Timeout Setting

On 06/07/2015 06:52 PM, Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Sun, 2015-06-07 at 18:37 +0800, mudongliang wrote: Today I compile the linux kernel 4.0.0 in LinuxMint!When I update grub and reboot into the system , I can only get into 4.0.0 kernel! The content of /etc/default/grub is following: GRUB_DEFAULT

Re: Grub2 Timeout Setting

On Sun, 2015-06-07 at 18:37 +0800, mudongliang wrote: > Today I compile the linux kernel 4.0.0 in LinuxMint!When I update grub > and reboot into the system , I can only get into 4.0.0 kernel! > The content of /etc/default/grub is following: > > GRUB_DEFAULT=0 > GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0 > GRUB_HIDDEN

Re: Grub2 (Wheezy) booting off either disk in a RAID1 mirror

Andrew Wood a écrit : > > One further question though when doing this it gives the option of > installing grub on both sda and sdb (which I selected) but also md1 > which is the main root file system (which I left unselected ). Under > what circumstances would you choose this? Presumably only i

Re: Grub2 (Wheezy) booting off either disk in a RAID1 mirror

On 19/05/15 18:38, Andrew Wood wrote: On 18/05/15 23:18, Pascal Hambourg wrote: It works, but the "right way" is to reconfigure the grub-pc package with # dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc and choose to install the bootloader on both disks. This way the bootloader will be automatically reinstalled pr

Re: Grub2 (Wheezy) booting off either disk in a RAID1 mirror

On 18/05/15 23:18, Pascal Hambourg wrote: It works, but the "right way" is to reconfigure the grub-pc package with # dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc and choose to install the bootloader on both disks. This way the bootloader will be automatically reinstalled properly when the package is upgraded. If

Re: Grub2 (Wheezy) booting off either disk in a RAID1 mirror

Darac Marjal wrote: > Andrew Wood wrote: > > Ive got 2 disks in a RAID1 mirror and am trying to setup Grub 2 so that I > > can boot from either disk if one fails. > > Ive tried using dd to copy the MBR over but when booting from one of the > > disks I just get the word GRUB which I guess is becaus

Re: Grub2 (Wheezy) booting off either disk in a RAID1 mirror

Darac Marjal a écrit : > On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 02:52:21PM +0100, Andrew Wood wrote: >> Ive got 2 disks in a RAID1 mirror and am trying to setup Grub 2 so that I >> can boot from either disk if one fails. >> Ive tried using dd to copy the MBR over but when booting from one of the >> disks I just

Re: Grub2 (Wheezy) booting off either disk in a RAID1 mirror

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 02:52:21PM +0100, Andrew Wood wrote: > Ive got 2 disks in a RAID1 mirror and am trying to setup Grub 2 so that I > can boot from either disk if one fails. > Ive tried using dd to copy the MBR over but when booting from one of the > disks I just get the word GRUB which I gue

Re: [Solved] Re: GRUB2

On 06/06/14 09:39 PM, Man_Without_Clue wrote: > > On 06/06/2014 11:38 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: >> On 06/06/14 02:04 AM, Go Linux wrote: >>> On Fri, 6/6/14, Man_Without_Clue wrote: >>> >>> Subject: GRUB2 >>> To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" >>> Date: Friday, June 6, 2014, 12:48 AM >>> >>> Hi

Re: GRUB2

On Saturday 07 June 2014 10:34:44 emmanuel segura wrote: > install-grub is used on solaris x86 Which is relevant how to what does or does not work in Debian??? Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@li

Re: GRUB2

On 2014-06-07, emmanuel segura wrote: > install-grub is used on solaris x86 > I'm afraid I fail to find that fact in any way exculpatory. ;-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archiv

Re: GRUB2

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/817-5093/disksxadd-45774/index.html 2014-06-07 11:34 GMT+02:00 emmanuel segura : > install-grub is used on solaris x86 > > 2014-06-07 10:45 GMT+02:00 Curt : >> On 2014-06-07, Man_Without_Clue wrote: >>> >>> I understand I should re-install GRUB from Debian side

Re: GRUB2

install-grub is used on solaris x86 2014-06-07 10:45 GMT+02:00 Curt : > On 2014-06-07, Man_Without_Clue wrote: >> >> I understand I should re-install GRUB from Debian side. >> >> Now, how do I do that? >> >> "install-grub" command doesn't work. >> >> How do I install grub? >> > > Right. The comm

Re: GRUB2

On 2014-06-07, Man_Without_Clue wrote: > > I understand I should re-install GRUB from Debian side. > > Now, how do I do that? > > "install-grub" command doesn't work. > > How do I install grub? > Right. The command is "grub-install" (these small matters of syntax matter because our 'puters are s

[Solved] Re: GRUB2

On 06/06/2014 11:38 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 06/06/14 02:04 AM, Go Linux wrote: >> On Fri, 6/6/14, Man_Without_Clue wrote: >> >> Subject: GRUB2 >> To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" >> Date: Friday, June 6, 2014, 12:48 AM >> >> Hi all, >> >> Once again I need your help. >> >> I have debia

Re: GRUB2

On 06/07/2014 09:11 AM, Bob Holtzman wrote: On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 10:38:42AM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On 06/06/14 02:04 AM, Go Linux wrote: On Fri, 6/6/14, Man_Without_Clue wrote: Subject: GRUB2 To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" Date: Friday, June 6, 2014, 12:48 AM Hi all,

Re: GRUB2

On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 10:38:42AM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > On 06/06/14 02:04 AM, Go Linux wrote: > >On Fri, 6/6/14, Man_Without_Clue wrote: > > > > Subject: GRUB2 > > To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" > > Date: Friday, June 6, 2014, 12:48 AM > > > > Hi all, > > > > Once again I need

Re: GRUB2

On 06/06/14 02:04 AM, Go Linux wrote: On Fri, 6/6/14, Man_Without_Clue wrote: Subject: GRUB2 To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" Date: Friday, June 6, 2014, 12:48 AM Hi all, Once again I need your help. I have debian wheezy installed on my primary HDD sda1, and I just installed

Re: GRUB2

On Fri, 6/6/14, Man_Without_Clue wrote: Subject: GRUB2 To: "debian-user@lists.debian.org" Date: Friday, June 6, 2014, 12:48 AM Hi all, Once again I need your help. I have debian wheezy installed on my primary HDD sda1, and I just installed Mint 17 on separate HDD sdb2. Now the GRUB

Re: Grub2 missed Microsoft Windows 8.1 during Debian install

On Sat 24 May 2014 at 21:16:26 +1200, C.T.F. Jansen wrote: > Grub2 missed Microsoft Windows 8.1 on the internal hard disk during > the install of Debian 7.1 to an external hard disk. It failed to > detect another operating system in the mbr and was primed to over > write it. A trap waiting to be s

Re: Re: grub2 menu problems

> - Original Message - > From: Muntasim Ul Haque > Sent: 04/24/14 12:43 AM > To: mailingl...@darac.org.uk > Subject: Re: Re: grub2 menu problems > > I'm using Debian Wheezy and grub2 is default here. And I do not have Windows > Vista installed. It's

Re: Re: grub2 menu problems

I'm using Debian Wheezy and grub2 is default here. And I do not have Windows Vista installed. It's just as I told you, grub2 detected Windows 8 as Windows Vista. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

Re: grub2 menu problems

On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 05:54:22PM +0600, Muntasim Ul Haque wrote: >Hi, >I dual-booted Debian with Windows 8. Windows 8 is shown as Windows Vista >in grub menu. When I select that Windows Vista and press the Enter key, an >error message occurs saying: > >error: no argument spec

Re: grub2 menu problems

What are the specifications of your hardware? - CPU (brand and model) - chipset (brand and model) - RAM (brand, model and capacity) - hard disk drive (brand, model and capacity) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Re: Grub2 menu editing (solved)

On 12/25/2013 12:14 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Would someone tell me how to edit the grub2 menu. I have over 10 items showing including versions of the OS that I don't even use anymore. Further, the items are out of order and I have to be careful when rebooting or the wrong OS gets loaded. I'm using

Re: Grub2 menu editing

On Mi, 25 dec 13, 12:14:20, Gary Roach wrote: > Would someone tell me how to edit the grub2 menu. I have over 10 > items showing including versions of the OS that I don't even use > anymore. The grub menu is generated automatically, using a tool (os-prober) that detects all other operating syste

Re: Grub2 menu editing

On Thu, December 26, 2013 2:40 pm, Tom H wrote: > On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 4:19 AM, Weaver wrote: >> On Wed, December 25, 2013 12:14 pm, Gary Roach wrote: >>> >>> Would someone tell me how to edit the grub2 menu. I have over 10 items >>> showing including versions of the OS that I don't even use a

Re: Grub2 menu editing

On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 4:19 AM, Weaver wrote: > On Wed, December 25, 2013 12:14 pm, Gary Roach wrote: >> >> Would someone tell me how to edit the grub2 menu. I have over 10 items >> showing including versions of the OS that I don't even use anymore. >> Further, the items are out of order and I ha

Re: Grub2 menu editing

On Dec 26, 2013 8:45 AM, "Lisi Reisz" wrote: > > On Thursday 26 December 2013 14:27:16 Brian wrote: > > Wouldn't it be cleaner to purge linux-image-* packages? > > Thanks for the prod, Brian! I now have a manageable number of kernels > in my grub list! > > Happy Christmas season. > > Lisi > > > -

Re: Grub2 menu editing

On Thursday 26 December 2013 14:27:16 Brian wrote: > Wouldn't it be cleaner to purge linux-image-* packages? Thanks for the prod, Brian! I now have a manageable number of kernels in my grub list! Happy Christmas season. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Grub2 menu editing

On Wed 25 Dec 2013 at 20:19:21 -0800, Weaver wrote: > On Wed, December 25, 2013 12:14 pm, Gary Roach wrote: > > Would someone tell me how to edit the grub2 menu. I have over 10 items > > showing including versions of the OS that I don't even use anymore. > > Further, the items are out of order and

Re: Grub2 menu editing

On Wed, December 25, 2013 12:14 pm, Gary Roach wrote: > Would someone tell me how to edit the grub2 menu. I have over 10 items > showing including versions of the OS that I don't even use anymore. > Further, the items are out of order and I have to be careful when > rebooting or the wrong OS gets

Re: Grub2 menu editing

On Wed, 25 Dec 2013 12:14:20 -0800, Gary Roach wrote: > Would someone tell me how to edit the grub2 menu. I have over 10 items > showing including versions of the OS that I don't even use anymore. > Further, the items are out of order and I have to be careful when > rebooting or the wrong OS gets

Re: grub2 and linux from scratch

On Friday 13 December 2013 17:26:19 john s wrote: > grub2 is doing something I don't understand. > > /etc/default/grub has the line: > GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -c -s 2> /dev/null || echo Debian` > > the boot menu shows: > > linux from scratch gnu/linux > advanced options for linux from scra

Re: grub2 floppy seek - how to switch off?

On 09/07/13 08:12, dulev wrote: On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 22:12:16 +0100, MRH wrote: Just to bump the question (below) - anyone, any ideas, please? On 23/06/13 16:56, MRH wrote: Hi, I have a problem with grub2. Recently (after updating to wheezy) grub has been upgraded to grub2. All fine and well,

Re: grub2 floppy seek - how to switch off?

On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 22:12:16 +0100, MRH wrote: > Just to bump the question (below) - anyone, any ideas, please? > > On 23/06/13 16:56, MRH wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have a problem with grub2. > > Recently (after updating to wheezy) grub has been upgraded to grub2. All > > fine and well, but it sta

Re: grub2 floppy seek - how to switch off?

MRH wrote: Just to bump the question (below) - anyone, any ideas, please? On 23/06/13 16:56, MRH wrote: Hi, I have a problem with grub2. Recently (after updating to wheezy) grub has been upgraded to grub2. All fine and well, but it started long floppy seek at the boot, which is sort of ann

Re: grub2 floppy seek - how to switch off?

The Sunday 23 June 2013 17:56:22, MRH wrote : > Hi, > Hi, Go to bios and bisable the floppy there, should do the trick. Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.d

Re: grub2 floppy seek - how to switch off?

Just to bump the question (below) - anyone, any ideas, please? On 23/06/13 16:56, MRH wrote: Hi, I have a problem with grub2. Recently (after updating to wheezy) grub has been upgraded to grub2. All fine and well, but it started long floppy seek at the boot, which is sort of annoying, as it

Re: Grub2 gives error :File not found and goes into rescue mode

Success!. Thank you, Gary. I downloaded the 64 bit verison of the boot repair disk and it works; the 32 bit version did not. Somehow the MBR seems to have gone out of sync with grubsdevices. It looks as if, especially when you chroot to a mountpoint this can happen. If root is mounted on /mnt I

Re: Grub2 gives error :File not found and goes into rescue mode

On 05/23/2013 11:30 AM, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: Thank you Klaus. /dev/sda is hd0 and is the permanent hard disk. It has the MBR on which I want to install Grub. /dev/sdb is the removable hard disk.Its first partition is, as you say, hd1,msdos1 on which grub2 is installed under /boot/grub.

Re: GRUB2 error (Solved)

On 05/21/2013 04:24 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 gru

Re: Grub2 gives error :File not found and goes into rescue mode

Thank you Klaus. /dev/sda is hd0 and is the permanent hard disk. It has the MBR on which I want to install Grub. /dev/sdb is the removable hard disk.Its first partition is, as you say, hd1,msdos1 on which grub2 is installed under /boot/grub. After I boot into /dev/sdb1 with supergrub I run grub-i

Re: Grub2 gives error :File not found and goes into rescue mode

On 23/05/13 00:45, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: I meant to say /dev/sda > set root=(hd1,msdos1) > Is your removable hd still attached? IIRC grub counts discs from "0", so your "hd1" would then refer to your second hd. Do you have grub installed on the aptosid system? What's your BIOS boot pre

Re: GRUB2 error

On Thu, 23 May 2013 07:34:45 +0800, Gary Roach wrote: To all, I reinstalled grub2 with "Aptitude reinstall grub2". The installation seemed to work fine. I updated grub afterward. Brian asked grub-install /dev/sdX ? So.. # grub-install --recheck /dev/sdX # update-grub -- To UNSUBS

Re: Grub2 gives error :File not found and goes into rescue mode

On Thu, 23 May 2013 08:51:38 +0800, Gary Roach wrote: Sebastian, Your root="(hd0,msdos1)" should be 'set root="(hd0,msdos1)".' I don't know whether that is a typo or whether leaving off set would make a difference but my information says it should be "set root". root="(hd0,msdos1)" is us

Re: Grub2 gives error :File not found and goes into rescue mode

On 05/22/2013 05:51 PM, Gary Roach wrote: On 05/22/2013 04:45 PM, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: Thank uou Frank and Klaus. As you surmised, it was a typo : I meant to say /dev/sda to be sure I repeated the grub-install and the version given by bootinfoscript if 1.99 though AI have 2.00-14. When

Re: Grub2 gives error :File not found and goes into rescue mode

On 05/22/2013 04:45 PM, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: Thank uou Frank and Klaus. As you surmised, it was a typo : I meant to say /dev/sda to be sure I repeated the grub-install and the version given by bootinfoscript if 1.99 though AI have 2.00-14. When I use grub rescue and type set prefixs=(hd

Re: GRUB2 error

On 05/22/2013 11:20 AM, Gary Roach wrote: To all the questions. I reinstalled grub2. The same problem persists. I have run update-grub2 (a stub that runs grub-mkconfig for grub2) several times with no improvement. i also ran grub-mkconfig directly. Same results. See listing below. I've had Wh

Re: Grub2 gives error :File not found and goes into rescue mode

Thank uou Frank and Klaus. As you surmised, it was a typo : I meant to say /dev/sda to be sure I repeated the grub-install and the version given by bootinfoscript if 1.99 though AI have 2.00-14. When I use grub rescue and type set prefixs=(hd1,msdos1)/boot/grub and then root=(hd1,msdos1) and insmod

Re: Grub2 gives error :File not found and goes into rescue mode

On 05/22/2013 05:21 PM, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: Further to the questions I raised, I downloaded supergrub2 and I was able to access the system.However, after starting 3.9.3.slh-1 and running update-grub and grub-install /dev/sda0 ( the installation finished. No error reported) still, on rebo

Re: Grub2 gives error :File not found and goes into rescue mode

On 22/05/13 22:21, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: Further to the questions I raised, I downloaded supergrub2 and I was able to access the system.However, after starting 3.9.3.slh-1 and running update-grub and grub-install /dev/sda0 ( the installation finished. No error reported) Is this a typo

Re: GRUB2 error

On Wed 22 May 2013 at 11:20:38 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > On 05/21/2013 04:24 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > > I reinstalled grub2. The same problem persists. Does this refer to reinstalling the grub packages or to the command grub-install /dev/sdX ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ.

Re: Grub2 gives error :File not found and goes into rescue mode

Further to the questions I raised, I downloaded supergrub2 and I was able to access the system.However, after starting 3.9.3.slh-1 and running update-grub and grub-install /dev/sda0 ( the installation finished. No error reported) still, on rebooting, come to the same error of file not found and get

Re: GRUB2 error

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > On 05/21/2013 04:24 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: >

Re: GRUB2 error

On 05/21/2013 04:24 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 gru

Re: GRUB2 error

Sorry, I cannot help with your original question, but this doesn't fit: Gary Roach: > > My wife let her Debian machine get over 450 packages behind before I > caught it. […] Oh yes, we are running Debian Wheezy (stable) and KDE > desktop […] Are you sure you are running wheezy? It has only been

Re: GRUB2 error

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 gru

Re: GRUB2 error

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 04:24:39PM -0700, 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 > Enter

Re: Grub2 gives error :File not found and goes into rescue mode

Hi Igor: The Computer was bootoing off the mbr, though I think I made the vista partition /dev/sda1 the debian stable partition /de v/sda2 as well as the debian unsable partition /dev/sdb2 bootable. This happened when I was upgrading from 3.8.10-slh-aptosid-686 to the the 3.9-2.slh.1 v

Re: Grub2 with multiple Debians

On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 11:06:42PM +0200, lee wrote: > Are you referring to grub figuring it out when booting or to grub > figuring it out while it's being installed? (In any case, I don't know > any of the answers ...) tal% less /boot/grub/device.map (hd0) /dev/disk/by-id/ata-Hitachi_HTS541040

Re: Grub2 with multiple Debians

On 09/16/12 00:45, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 15 sep 12, 19:03:28, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 13:39:29 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: I've solved this by having one grub in the MBR and installing each grub in the corresponding first sector of the partition. Not recommended by grub

Re: Grub2 with multiple Debians

Dmitriy Matrosov writes: > On 09/15/12 18:23, lee wrote: >> >> Can't we have a boot manager which is independent of the installed OSs? >> Grub kinda does its own thing already, and if there was something like a >> standardised API through which OSs could tell the boot manager how they >> are to b

Re: Grub2 with multiple Debians

On Sb, 15 sep 12, 18:52:27, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > (That assumes, or course, that /etc is in the root partition and not > separately mounted. But if it was separately mounted, there would be no > way for it to read /etc/fstab in order to find out what to mount for / > etc.) AFAIK /etc is one

Re: Grub2 with multiple Debians

On Sb, 15 sep 12, 19:03:28, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 13:39:29 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > > > I've solved this by having one grub in the MBR and installing each grub > > in the corresponding first sector of the partition. Not recommended by > > grub, but it works. > > So eac

Re: Grub2 with multiple Debians

On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:25:03 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > UUIDs? What failure mode(s) do you have in mind, because I can't think > of any. When looking at /etc/fstab or grub configuration files: Alas! UUIDs are so unmnemonic! -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lis

Re: Grub2 with multiple Debians

On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 02:19:11 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 22:37:28 +0100, Joe wrote: > >> On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:42:21 + (UTC) >> Hendrik Boom wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:25:03 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >>> >>> > On Vi, 14 sep 12, 17:12:38, Hendrik Boom wrot

Re: Grub2 with multiple Debians

On 09/15/12 22:52, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 13:40:16 +0400, Dmitriy Matrosov wrote: On 09/15/12 00:42, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:25:03 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 14 sep 12, 17:12:38, Hendrik Boom wrote: Of course, after I've made my copy (with sligh

Re: Grub2 with multiple Debians

On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 13:39:29 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 15 sep 12, 13:40:16, Dmitriy Matrosov wrote: >> >> Note, that suggested above approach requires one edited by hand >> grub,cfg along with automatically generated others. > > I've solved this by having one grub in the MBR and inst

Re: Grub2 with multiple Debians

On 09/15/12 18:23, lee wrote: Can't we have a boot manager which is independent of the installed OSs? Grub kinda does its own thing already, and if there was something like a standardised API through which OSs could tell the boot manager how they are to be booted, we would install the boot manag

Re: Grub2 with multiple Debians

On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 02:19:11 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 22:37:28 +0100, Joe wrote: > >> On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:42:21 + (UTC) >> Hendrik Boom wrote: >> >>> On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:25:03 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >>> >>> > On Vi, 14 sep 12, 17:12:38, Hendrik Boom wrot

Re: Grub2 with multiple Debians

On Sat, 15 Sep 2012 13:40:16 +0400, Dmitriy Matrosov wrote: > On 09/15/12 00:42, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:25:03 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> >>> On Vi, 14 sep 12, 17:12:38, Hendrik Boom wrote: Of course, after I've made my copy (with slight changes to /etc/fs

Re: Grub2 with multiple Debians

Hendrik Boom writes: > On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:06:42 +0200, lee wrote: > >> Hendrik Boom writes: >> >>> Of course, after I've made my copy (with slight changes to /etc/fstab) >>> I have two nearly identical sets of partitions, so it may be tricky to >>> tell them apart. Is grub2 clever enough t

Re: Grub2 with multiple Debians

On Sb, 15 sep 12, 13:40:16, Dmitriy Matrosov wrote: > > Note, that suggested above approach requires one edited by hand grub,cfg > along with automatically generated others. I've solved this by having one grub in the MBR and installing each grub in the corresponding first sector of the partition

Re: Grub2 with multiple Debians

On 09/15/12 00:42, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:25:03 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Vi, 14 sep 12, 17:12:38, Hendrik Boom wrote: Of course, after I've made my copy (with slight changes to /etc/fstab) I have two nearly identical sets of partitions, so it may be tricky to tell t

Re: Grub2 with multiple Debians

> >> This wprked fine with LILO and GRUB 1, where I was in control of > >> configuratino files and could explicitly specify which root partitions > >> went with which boot partitions/ Why don't you simply get rid of the updater if you need GRUB2? That's what I did, resp. as I've written before, I

Re: Grub2 with multiple Debians

On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 22:37:28 +0100, Joe wrote: > On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 20:42:21 + (UTC) > Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:25:03 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: >> >> > On Vi, 14 sep 12, 17:12:38, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> >> >> >> Of course, after I've made my copy (with slight cha

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