Re: grub failure after recent dist-upgrade

2009-02-21 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 09:27:33 +0100 Peter Robinson wrote: Hello Peter, > I had the same problem and solved by commenting out the set and search > lines in grub.cfg: Which is just what I did. At least I know the problem is not unique to me. Finally, please don't Cc: me. I subscribe to the lis

Re: grub failure after recent dist-upgrade

2009-02-21 Thread Peter Robinson
Brad Rogers wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:36:42 -0800 "Todd A. Jacobs" wrote: Hello Todd, error: unknown command 'initrd' How can I recover from this? First, you need to get the system up. Do this by editing the boot command so the first two lines get removed. That is, the one

Re: grub failure after recent dist-upgrade

2009-02-20 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:36:42 -0800 "Todd A. Jacobs" wrote: Hello Todd, > error: unknown command 'initrd' > How can I recover from this? First, you need to get the system up. Do this by editing the boot command so the first two lines get removed. That is, the ones that begin set root= & s

grub failure after recent dist-upgrade

2009-02-20 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I'm running 2.6.26-1-amd64 on a 64-bit system, and am primarily running a testing system with a few other packages mixed in from sid and experimental. After a recent dist-upgrade, grub 1.96 now fails to boot with: error: unknown command 'initrd' This happens for all kernels on the boot parti