On Saturday 14 January 2012 11:06:33 Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > Hi, > > On my desktop, which is running Squeeze, I tried to upgrade some > packages to their Wheezy version. I have now reverted the upgrade, but I > am alarmed. > > One of the packages was grub2 which was at version > 1.98+20100804-14+squeeze1 and was upgraded to 1.99-14. > > To cut a long story short, I ended with an unbootable system. Grub > refused to install on the MBR. I do not remember the message exactly, > but it mentioned that the record was unusually short, and core.img could > not fit into it. Then it told me that the only option was to use > blocklists but that was discouraged as unreliable. > > What am I going to do when Wheezy becomes stable. This is a new computer.
I dont understand what you are saiing. From wikipedia here is the definition of mbr: A master boot record (MBR) is a type of boot sector popularized by the IBM Personal Computer.[1] It consists of a sequence of 512 bytes located at the first sector of a data storage device such as a hard disk. MBRs are usually placed on storage devices intended for use with IBM PC-compatible systems So no wonder you can't put grub on 512 bytes. I would try, usind an install iso, to chroot into your system and reinstall grub. Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201201141255.39987.tchate...@free.fr
