> On August 10, 2016 at 3:01 AM Simon Hobson <li...@thehobsons.co.uk> wrote: > > 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.
Actually it is not. Turns out, I had managed to screw up my partition table. So Grub would never in a million years be able to boot anything off that disk. I found this out during reinstallation when I was presented with a partition table different from what I expected. Nevertheless, my complaint is that Grub is not helpful in these circumstances, lacking even a help command at its prompt. You really need impeccable Grub-fu or another computer with net access. Anyway, the reinstallation worked well, and I will restore the data off my original disk (I was replacing a 20 GB disk with a 160 GB disk when I ran into the problem). Peter Olson _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
