Le 30/03/2016 17:17, Alan McConnell a écrit :
I have two further requests: 1. does anyone know how to proceed from the prompt 'grub>' There are all kinds of commands available from that point; will any lead me to the goal of getting a kernel to boot?
It is probably what remains from the former Debian installation ; without the rest located in /boot/grub/ that was deleted when reformatting the partitions, it is useless.
You can type 'set' to print some information but that's about all.