Re: Recovering from failure to install Grub

2017-01-18 Thread Brian
On Wed 18 Jan 2017 at 04:55:05 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 1/17/2017 5:58 PM, Brian wrote: > >On Tue 17 Jan 2017 at 14:19:11 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >>I just installed Jessie to a USB flash drive. > >>Unfortunately I mistyped the name of the preseed.cfg file and ran the one > >>wh

Re: Recovering from failure to install Grub

2017-01-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 1/17/2017 5:58 PM, Brian wrote: On Tue 17 Jan 2017 at 14:19:11 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I just installed Jessie to a USB flash drive. Unfortunately I mistyped the name of the preseed.cfg file and ran the one which did not install grub to the target drive. On a working Jessie machine I in

Re: Recovering from failure to install Grub

2017-01-18 Thread Richard Owlett
On 1/17/2017 2:59 PM, Richard Owlett wrote: On 1/17/2017 2:37 PM, Hans wrote: [snip] If this all fails, you can try the same way by using RIP-Livefile (aka Rescue- is-possible livefile cd.) I didn't find a current link. Is it still available?

Re: Recovering from failure to install Grub

2017-01-17 Thread Brian
On Tue 17 Jan 2017 at 14:19:11 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: > I just installed Jessie to a USB flash drive. > Unfortunately I mistyped the name of the preseed.cfg file and ran the one > which did not install grub to the target drive. > On a working Jessie machine I inserted the flash drive and the

Re: Recovering from failure to install Grub

2017-01-17 Thread Richard Owlett
On 1/17/2017 2:37 PM, Hans wrote: Hi Richard, try to boot from super-grub-disk by using its kernel. If your debian boots on the harddrive boots, run update-grub on the booted system. This should fix your harddrive. I had already done that. It added the image on the flash drive to the boo

Re: Recovering from failure to install Grub

2017-01-17 Thread Hans
Hi Richard, try to boot from super-grub-disk by using its kernel. If your debian boots on the harddrive boots, run update-grub on the booted system. This should fix your harddrive. Super-grub-disk has also some options, to restore grub. If this all fails, you can try the same way by using RIP-L

Recovering from failure to install Grub

2017-01-17 Thread Richard Owlett
I just installed Jessie to a USB flash drive. Unfortunately I mistyped the name of the preseed.cfg file and ran the one which did not install grub to the target drive. On a working Jessie machine I inserted the flash drive and then ran update-grub. I was then able to boot the copy of Debian resi