Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-17 Thread Tom H
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Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-17 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:46:47 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell wrote: Hello Stephen, > I'm glad to know that there is a way. Thanks. YW. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" Now I found you out, I don't think you're so

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-17 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 20:40:43 -0400 Tom H wrote: Hello Tom, > GRUB_DEFAULT=saved That's the one. Thanks for the reminder. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" Life goes quick and it goes without warning Bombsite B

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-17 Thread Tom H
>>> Again, is there no way to set a default in grub2?  Is there no >>> way, for example, to make the last-booted kernel the default kernel? >> Modify /etc/default/grub to point to the relevant stanza, then run >> grub-update. Changes made directly to /boot/grub/grub.cfg will get >> overwritten nex

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:48:39 -0400 (EDT), Brad Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:29:16 -0400 (EDT), Stephen Powell wrote: >> Again, is there no way to set a default in grub2? Is there no >> way, for example, to make the last-booted kernel the default kernel? > > Modify /etc/default/grub to p

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Tom H
>> Again, is there no way to set a default in grub2?  Is there no >> way, for example, to make the last-booted kernel the default kernel? > Modify /etc/default/grub to point to the relevant stanza, then run > grub-update. Changes made directly to /boot/grub/grub.cfg will get > overwritten next upd

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:29:16 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell wrote: Hello Stephen, > Again, is there no way to set a default in grub2? Is there no > way, for example, to make the last-booted kernel the default kernel? Modify /etc/default/grub to point to the relevant stanza, then run grub-update. C

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:17 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > On 3/16/2010 8:28 AM, Wolodja Wentland wrote: > > >The easiest way would be to enforce a strict naming scheme (maybe with > >lintian) so the aforementioned code can stay as simple as it is today. > In the short run, an easy thing to do is

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Mark Allums
On 3/16/2010 8:28 AM, Wolodja Wentland wrote: The easiest way would be to enforce a strict naming scheme (maybe with lintian) so the aforementioned code can stay as simple as it is today. In the short run, an easy thing to do is remove -trunk- image and all corresponding packages, as it is a

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:28:18 -0400 (EDT), Wolodja Wentland wrote: > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 09:03 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> My guess is that grub2 simply makes a list of all files in /boot which begin >> with linux-image, sorts them in descending order by the ASCII collating >> sequence, a

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 09:03 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:26:40 -0400 (EDT), Mitchell Laks wrote: > > > > I notice that others had problems with grub not updating the kernel > > from linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 to linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64 > > and I had this same probl

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Wolodja Wentland
On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 07:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2010-03-16 07:26, Mitchell Laks wrote: > Interesting thought. Does the system boot if you manually edit the > grub config file? The system boots fine if you select the new (-3-) kernel manually, so I would think that it would also boot

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Stephen Powell
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 08:26:40 -0400 (EDT), Mitchell Laks wrote: > > I notice that others had problems with grub not updating the kernel > from linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 to linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64 > and I had this same problem. > > I suspect that this is because the heuristic that dpkg or ap

Re: linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2010-03-16 07:26, Mitchell Laks wrote: I notice that others had problems with grub not updating the kernel from linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 to linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64 and I had this same problem. I suspect that this is because the heuristic that dpkg or apt or aptitude update is using f

linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 causing grub problems: alphabetical

2010-03-16 Thread Mitchell Laks
I notice that others had problems with grub not updating the kernel from linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 to linux-image-2.6.32-3-amd64 and I had this same problem. I suspect that this is because the heuristic that dpkg or apt or aptitude update is using finds that linux-image-2.6.32-trunk-686 is gr

Re: Installing linux-image-2.6.26-1-amd64 on lenny (grub problems)

2009-05-27 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 12:13 +1200, Simon wrote: > > We have a fresh install of lenny on a VM Which VM? > and tried to perform the initial apt-get update/upgrade but are having > issues with dependency problems. Can someone point me in the correct > direction here please? > # apt-get u

Re: boot (grub) problems

2008-01-16 Thread Robin
On 16/01/2008, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am currently running 2.6.22-3-k7 and update to testing daily. I > seldome reboot but the last several times the grub menu has not > displayed and the boot messages on the screen are pretty much illegible. > I can sort of make out the word

boot (grub) problems

2008-01-16 Thread Rick Pasotto
I am currently running 2.6.22-3-k7 and update to testing daily. I seldome reboot but the last several times the grub menu has not displayed and the boot messages on the screen are pretty much illegible. I can sort of make out the words but there seems to be some kind of overlay on the letters makin

grub problems..

2006-05-27 Thread kruton
problem: on booting grub complains.. > > Error 15: File not found but ofcourse, the kernel image file exists.. solution(?): at the grub blue screen, 1. 'e'dit, 2. 'd'elete the "savedefault" line 3. 'b'oot So I removed the line 'savedefault' from /boot/grub/menu.lst file. But the next upgrade,

Re: New Debian Installer... Grub problems...

2004-03-18 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 10:17:10PM -0500, +* A Death *+ wrote: > Well the new installer seems to work great ... except its doing > nothing for me since the boot loader isnt working... Please report problems with the new installer to debian-boot rather than debian-user. Except: > When the current

Re: New Debian Installer... Grub problems...

2004-03-17 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Mar 17, 2004 at 10:17:10PM -0500, +* A Death *+ wrote: > > Well the new installer seems to work great ... except its doing > nothing for me since the boot loader isnt working... no matter what i > tell grub (take in mind everytime i give it i new install path I have > to redo the whole ins

Re: New Debian Installer... Grub problems...

2004-03-17 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from +* A Death *+: > Well the new installer seems to work great ... except its doing nothing for > me since the boot loader isnt working... no matter what i tell grub (take in > mind everytime i give it i new install path I have to redo the whole install > (bug problem I assume)) it will

New Debian Installer... Grub problems...

2004-03-17 Thread +* A Death *+
Well the new installer seems to work great ... except its doing nothing for me since the boot loader isnt working... no matter what i tell grub (take in mind everytime i give it i new install path I have to redo the whole install (bug problem I assume)) it will not work I tried everythin

Re: Grub problems

2003-12-15 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Anita Lewis wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 12:27:04 -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Not at all! I will try something like that to be able to boot Debain. As of now I have no way to boot the Debian install. since lilo did not write to the drive. In fact, the installer, might not have correctly

Re: Grub problems

2003-12-15 Thread Anita Lewis
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 12:27:04 -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote: >> > Not at all! I will try something like that to be able to boot Debain. > As of now I have no way to boot the Debian install. since lilo did not > write to the drive. In fact, the installer, might not have correctly > written (and

Re: Grub problems

2003-12-14 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Anita Lewis wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 10:53:40 + (UTC), Anita Lewis wrote: On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 21:58:25 -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote: I blew up my grub with the debian installer, and it (the installer) does not rigth lilo to hda. How do I repair my grub? I know the drive lay-outs

Re: Grub problems

2003-12-14 Thread Anita Lewis
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 10:53:40 + (UTC), Anita Lewis wrote: > On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 21:58:25 -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote: >> I blew up my grub with the debian installer, and it (the installer) does >> not rigth lilo to hda. How do I repair my grub? I know the drive >> lay-outs, I can load knop

Re: Grub problems

2003-12-14 Thread Robert Storey
If I understand correctly, you've created a grub floppy? If not, you can download a floppy image file (http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub.html) and use the dd command to create the floppy. With the floppy, you should be able to boot. You'll have to manually type the commands (unless you can use

Re: Grub problems

2003-12-14 Thread Anita Lewis
On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 21:58:25 -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > I blew up my grub with the debian installer, and it (the installer) does > not rigth lilo to hda. How do I repair my grub? I know the drive > lay-outs, I can load knoppix chroot and do a grub-floppy. But with the > floppy then what

Grub problems

2003-12-13 Thread Damon L. Chesser
I blew up my grub with the debian installer, and it (the installer) does not rigth lilo to hda. How do I repair my grub? I know the drive lay-outs, I can load knoppix chroot and do a grub-floppy. But with the floppy then what do I tell grub? the home of the grub config file is hda6 (or hd0,

Re: Grub problems

2003-12-13 Thread Damon L. Chesser
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Second Post, don't know if the first made it out or not :) I messed up the grub on my box with the Debian installer. I know the partioning scheam. I can make a grub-floppy, but can not run grub-install from knoppix. Debian did not write LILO, but did eat up the grub.

Grub problems

2003-12-13 Thread dchesser4
Second Post, don't know if the first made it out or not :) I messed up the grub on my box with the Debian installer. I know the partioning scheam. I can make a grub-floppy, but can not run grub-install from knoppix. Debian did not write LILO, but did eat up the grub. I am sure I told it some

Re: GRUB problems with Deb 2.0

2000-01-19 Thread David Teague
On 19 Jan 2000, Lars Weber wrote: Hi Lars. > David Teague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > A GRUB floppy won't boot my old system which has a 486/66, 16 MB > [...] > > I've heard that older versions of GRUB are having problems with ext2 > file-systems created by recent versions of the e2fsprogs.

Re: GRUB problems with Deb 2.0

2000-01-19 Thread Lars Weber
Hi! David Teague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A GRUB floppy won't boot my old system which has a 486/66, 16 MB > RAM, VL bus mother board, adaptec 2840 with (now) one 1GB scsi drive > (Bios is enabled on the controller for that drive) and a scsi CD > ROM. Linux 2.0 is on /dev/sda1, swap is on /

GRUB problems with Deb 2.0

2000-01-17 Thread David Teague
Hi A GRUB floppy won't boot my old system which has a 486/66, 16 MB RAM, VL bus mother board, adaptec 2840 with (now) one 1GB scsi drive (Bios is enabled on the controller for that drive) and a scsi CD ROM. Linux 2.0 is on /dev/sda1, swap is on /dev/sda2. 2.0.34 Kernel. The kernel is redev'ed