I am going to respond to one of my earlier posts as it doesn't
help things at all to spread misinformation which I am guilty of,
here.
"Martin McCormick" writes:
> I appear to be using grub, not grub2.
No. It's grub2. Old Grub is now grub-legacy and is
probably a dead fly on s
Dan Ritter writes:
> in /boot/grub/menu.lst
>
> serial --unit=0 --speed=9600 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1
> terminal serial
>
> (yes, that's two lines)
>
> I hope that helps.
>
> If you want the option of either serial or console access,
> replace the second line with
>
> terminal --timeout=
On Sat, Nov 21 2020 at 05:04:30 PM, "Martin McCormick"
wrote:
> Felix Miata writes:
>> Save yourself many keystrokes by using the symlinks in the root directory
>> instead
>> of the long-winded full version-named /boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-5-686-pae
>
> This is wonderful to know and in the root o
Martin McCormick composed on 2020-11-21 17:04 (UTC-0600):
> I haven't found any uuid's that are different although I
> first thought I had as I looked at some links which had uuid's
> but they were good when I looked at the actual partition. It's
> easy to go down a rabbit hole if one doesn
Martin McCormick wrote:
> I appear to be using grub, not grub2. One of the
> articles I found had an example of how to use grub rescue that all
> works except, of course, for the actual booting of the kernel.
>
> There's an extra little wrinkle in that, as a computer
> warier who hap
Felix Miata writes:
> Save yourself many keystrokes by using the symlinks in the root directory
> instead
> of the long-winded full version-named /boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-5-686-pae
This is wonderful to know and in the root or / directory of this
disk, there is
initrd.img, initrd.img.old, vmlinu
Martin McCormick composed on 2020-11-21 12:49 (UTC-0600):
> I appreciate the good suggestions I have gotten from
> several of you so far.
Save yourself many keystrokes by using the symlinks in the root directory
instead
of the long-winded full version-named /boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-5-686-pae..
I did some duckduckgo-ing about grub rescue and found useful
things but am still dead in the water.
I appear to be using grub, not grub2. One of the
articles I found had an example of how to use grub rescue that all
works except, of course, for the actual booting of the kernel.
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