Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 21 Jul 2009, thveillon.debian wrote: >> Anthony Campbell wrote: >>> Rashly, after today's upgrade I followed the exhortation in the grub >>> legacy package to move to grub2. I now cannot boot at all; I just get >>> the message "Grub" and nothing more. >>> >>> Looking at /boot/grub with my rescue disk I see all sorts of files I >>> don't recognize but no menu.lst. >>> >>> Is there any way to restore things? Please don't tell me I have to >>> reinstall! >>> >>> Anthony >>> >> Hi, >> >> when you end up with the "grub" message, what does it look like ? Is it >> a succession of "grub" word or something like a prompt where you can >> type something (try "ls" and "set" if you can type something) ? >> >> Most live-cd or installation disks will allow you to "boot from hard >> drive" from their menu, maybe you can try that if you have such a disk >> at hand. >> >> Tom > > It just says GRUB and I can't type anything. > >
grub hasn't been installed properly, you have to reinstall it from a live-cd or use a tool like SGD (SuperGrubDisk) http://www.supergrubdisk.org/ No live-cd that I know of has grub2 support, only Ubuntu "Karmic Koala" betas, and since your /boot/grub/menu.lst is missing even tools like SGD may not be able to boot the system. You may have to mount your system partition (or /boot) from the live-cd, and either recreate a menu.lst or chroot to reinstall grub properly. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
