Hi Igor:
The Computer was bootoing off the mbr, though I think I made
the vista partition /dev/sda1 the debian stable partition /de v/sda2 as
well as the debian unsable partition /dev/sdb2 bootable. This happened
when I was upgrading from 3.8.10-slh-aptosid-686 to the the 3.9-2.slh.1
verdion. The latter must be OK because when I boot from the suoer grub disk
everything is OK. Either the MBR is damaged ( when I grub install into
/dev/sda eveything is sussessful and no error message is reported or there
must be a bug in the version of grub which comes with the latest
distribtion.
As I said earlier, I blanked out the first 512 sectors of /dev/sda and no
error is reported whenI grub-install.There is no /etc/grub in debian
aptosid. all the files reside is /boot/grub. grub.gfg is here. I di d a
grub-update and I verified that the UUID,s were fine, Grub is not finding a
file, because the path has presumably got messed up. Afre ther any log
files to llok at?
Thanks
Sebastian
On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 8:37 PM, Igor Cicimov <icici...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 19/05/2013 3:12 AM, "Sebastian Canagaratna" <s-canagara...@onu.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi : I have a hard disk /dev/sda and a removable disk /dev/sdb The 1st
> partition
> > is a vista partition, but this has been inoperable for some time
> /dev/sda2 has a linux
> > stable partition /dev/sdb1 has linux unstable (aptosid) on it, Yesterday
> I was upgrading to Linux 3.9.2 and thereafter I got this error. The
> updrade did nt\ot go to
> > completion. I have a super frub rescue disk with which I can start
> 3.9.2, but I am unable to repair the grub with update grub and grub-install
> /dev/sda.
>
> So which partition is marked as bootable? Whats your boot order in BIOS?
> Which linux did you upgrade? Which grub are you trying to install and
> where? What do you have in /etc/grub/grub.cfg?
>
> I have blanked out the first 512 sectors of dev/sda but that didn't help.
> Presumably grub is unabke
> > to find grub.cfg.Trying to run grub-install with other versions of Linux
> did not help. s this a bug in grub or is there something I can do to
> overcome this. I cab see in
> > Google thaqt others have had this file not found error. I have tried
> every likely thing ,but I am aksways left in rescue mode when booting, I'd
> appreciate any suggestion
> > Are there any logd which I can look at?
> >
> > Sebastian
>
