-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 05.12.2011 14:38, Harry Putnam wrote: > I haven't rebooted wheezy for a while... and there have been many > updates .. I'm not sure which ones have caused this problem but > when bootup starts I get to grub and immediately a prompt rather > than a selection screen. Afaik, that is the base grub before the modules from /grub/ get loaded. Usually this means somehow it did not found the /grub directory on the boot partition. > > It shows grub version 1.99 ?? something.. so is that grub2... It > must be since I do not recognize most of what I see. > > For example, I can type `help' and a massive flood of commands > flash past leaving only the last screenful visible... there seems > no way to page this mess, so it is mostly useless. > > Pressing <TAB> shows a gout of other commands with no newlines > just all in a blob. Given what I see, I have no idea at all how to > proceed or why this has happened. > > OK, grub2 by itself will never let me see how to get booted. Its > setup all wrong for that to happen, I mean how ridiculous is it to > offer a fountain of commands you can see for 1/50 of a second? So > digging up directions from google.. > > set root (hd0,1) (in grub1 that would be hd0,0) linux /vm<tab> > boot I think after the "linux /vm..." line you need tell it about initramfs with something like: "initrd /vm<tab>" (should match the kernel) else you may be missing required kernel modules.
Is (hd0,1) your /boot-partition? then you additionally need tell the kernel about the real root with something like "linux /vm<tab> root=/dev/<your root partition>" > > OK, now were talking... but whoops.. kernel panic .. just > paraphrasing: `unable to mount root on unknown block' > > What the heck has happened to my poor wheezy? > > I'm bunrning a systemRescue cd now... but any suggestions will be > most welcome. > > I think using a rescue CD (as suggested by Johann) is the best to do in this case. Debugging inside grub without experience can be a hard task (but its educational, done once you should be fine next time ;-) Greetings HP -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk7c1mUACgkQjLvx8ViUjYLZpwCfTMLPgEJ7nNJ1wY+8GULS4rt9 bh8Anjq4X2YgooyIRhFiDsq+cREBQ9Q+ =wyiG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
