Quoting Peter Olson (pe...@peabo.com): > 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.
It's late for this now, but if you _had_ known that the problem was the partition table, you could have fixed it using TestDisk or gpart http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gpart (I mention this mostly to spread knowledge of two useful tools.) > 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. Very true. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng