Peter Olson <pe...@peabo.com> wrote: > I have a machine in that state right now, and rather than try to debug it at > the Grub prompt, I am just going to reinstall the system.
That's a bit like the old "I'm buying a new car because the ashtray is full" joke. If you've managed to screw up your kernel and/or init image then that's not a grub problem - a bit like blaming Goodyear (or whoever) because you drove over a rock and shredded both the tyre and rim. If you haven't then the system is recoverable. Many installers have a rescue option (may be under an advanced submenu) that will allow you to boot the system and mount your chosen partition as a temporary root. Then "update-grub" "grub-install /dev/..." should fix it. Or you can do it manually. Boot off a live disk and mount /dev/... /mnt mount /dev/... /mnt/boot (if you use a boot filesystem) mount -o bind /proc /mnt/proc mount -o bind /sys /mnt/sys mount -o bind /dev /mnt/dev chroot /mnt - fix your grub setup exit the chroot,, unmount filesystems, sync, reboot That usually does it for me. Or simpler than the above, give http://www.supergrubdisk.org a try. It was suggested to me last week, and it's really good. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
