On Fri 08 Aug 2014 at 21:42:01 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: > On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > > On Tue 05 Aug 2014 at 09:36:18 +0200, Artifex Maximus wrote: > > > >> Hello! > >> > >> I have a Wheezy system shared with MS XP. GRUB is not in MBR but in Debian > >> partition installed. Not recommended I know but basically works. Until last > >> upgrade when my GRUB loader only writes GRUB then halts. Or at least not > >> continue loading. No errors just stops. I have tried latest (7.6.0) Debian > >> install disc Recovery function to reinstall grub with grub-install > >> /dev/sda2 without success. Still just a GRUB line on screen when Debian > >> partition is active. When I switch active partition back to XP it runs. I > >> am able to mount sda2 from Debian installer and there is no fsck error. > > > > What messages did you get when did 'grub-install /dev/sda2'? > > Sorry I cannot recall exactly but something about some /dev/sda2/... > file when execute shell on mounted /dev/sda2. With installer > environment there was no grub-install just grub-installer. Because I > do not know what is the difference I had not enough courage to > execute.
Recalling the exact wording of an onscreen message is not something human beings have evolved to do yet. :) I have the same problem myself. > The good new I was able to recover my system with supergrub disk. I > was able to boot into my original system with supergrub then > update-grub. For sure I run grub-install -f /dev/sda2 and now I am > using my good old Debian system. What was strange I got a lot of > errors about fake start-stop-daemon and needed to rename > start-stop-daemon.REAL to start-stop-daemon for a successful boot. No > idea at all what, when, and why created that fake start-stop-daemon > script. Hope no more surprise in my system. Glad you could sort it. Running 'grub-install --force' (-f is an invalid option) is obligatory to get grub to install itself in a partition. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/08082014222143.5a2cb6a1d...@desktop.copernicus.demon.co.uk
