On 20/02/2015, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > Bret Busby wrote: >> The Debian 7.60 LXDE LiveCD does not have an option to boot into rescue >> mode. > > You could always download the standard debian-installer and use that > to boot rescue mode. It is a very good option. > > However if you have a livecd and you say you do then that should be > enough to do what you need. Simply chroot into your system and then > use it to repair your bootloader. > > The basic process goes like this. > > * Boot a livecd image. > * Mount the target system to repair. > > mkdir /target > mount /dev/sda5 /target > mount /dev/sda1 /target/boot > chroot /target /bin/bash > grub-install /dev/sda > exit > shutdown -r now > > You will need to adapt it to your system environment. Your device > paths will be uniquely yours. This is just an example of the overall > process to give you the idea of the flow. The chroot stacks a shell > logged into the target environment. Once inside that environment then > you have access to the system commands to repair grub. You can > apt-get install additional software. You can fix things. > > Bob >
Hello. I had found a LiveCD rescue iso, and had tried to load that, in case that would take me to a "restore grub" menu option, but that booted into a command line, that showed that fdisk was not available, and chroot was not available, so I tried to shut the system down, by using <CTRL><ALT><DEL>, and that let me retrieve the DVD, and I was going to try booting using an install disk iso, but, it booted into the botched PC-BSD thing, and, holding down the <ESC> key, got me a screen that had at the bottom, "Press enter to boot the selected OS" (the botched PC-BSD, that simply fails, was the only OS displayed as an option)" " "e' to edit the commands before booting" - meaningless to me "or "c' for a command line" so I pressed "C", hoping to be able to use a "shutdown" command, so that I could boot another computer, so as to download and write a current install Debian iso image, and, when I pressed the "c", I got a window that appeared, that is a GRUB thing, with the "grub>" prompt. So, now, this has evovled to the new question; what do I type in at the GRUB prompt, to make it search for, and, offer as boot options, the pre-existing, installed, Ubuntu and Debian installations? -- Bret Busby Armadale West Australia .............. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 .................................................... -- 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/CACX6j8NbZbUPs=zse+4w5ocha-o2dnk3uc1+cea+xt7pj_p...@mail.gmail.com
