Re: GRUB failure after updates

2016-03-08 Thread mat715
Thanks. An update installed yesterday appears to have fixed this problem. MIke - Original Message - From: mat...@comcast.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, February 14, 2016 11:32:08 AM Subject: GRUB failure after updates I have a single core pentium processor

Re: GRUB failure after updates

2016-02-15 Thread Adam Wilson
On Sun, 14 Feb 2016 18:32:08 + (UTC) mat...@comcast.net wrote: > I have a single core pentium processor system. Not sure about the > version of Debian Linux however I do know: > > > GRUB v1.99-27 > > GNOME Version 3.4.2 For your information, this would appear to be Debian 7.

Re: GRUB failure after updates

2016-02-14 Thread Terence
Hi, Mike, If GRUB allows you to boot into Debian, run "update-grub" as a sudo command or as root. The resulting report should show that GRUB has found both OS on your system. Mine shows, for example: Generating grub configuration file ... Found background image: /usr/share/images/desktop-base/de

GRUB failure after updates

2016-02-14 Thread mat715
I have a single core pentium processor system. Not sure about the version of Debian Linux however I do know: GRUB v1.99-27 GNOME Version 3.4.2 32 bit O/S For several years I have used this hardware with Windows XP and Debian in a dual bootable system through GRUB. Yesterday I load

Re: GRUB failure

2011-07-02 Thread Joel Roth
On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 02:14:28AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > On Fri, 1 Jul 2011, Joel Roth wrote: > > > > >On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 03:07:24AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > >>Hello. > >> > >>I have a "laptop" computer with winXP Pro, Unbuntu 8.04 and Debian 5 (I > >>think it is 5), installed. > >> >

Re: GRUB failure

2011-07-02 Thread Bret Busby
On Fri, 1 Jul 2011, Joel Roth wrote: On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 03:07:24AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: Hello. I have a "laptop" computer with winXP Pro, Unbuntu 8.04 and Debian 5 (I think it is 5), installed. With a recent electricity supply failure, I ran an orderly shutdown on the computer. Si

Re: GRUB failure

2011-07-02 Thread Joel Roth
On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 03:07:24AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > Hello. > > I have a "laptop" computer with winXP Pro, Unbuntu 8.04 and Debian 5 (I think > it is 5), installed. > > With a recent electricity supply failure, I ran an orderly shutdown > on the computer. > > Since that shutown, each t

Re: GRUB failure

2011-07-01 Thread Bret Busby
On Fri, 1 Jul 2011, teddi...@tmo.blackberry.net wrote: Bret Busby Ask: Hello. I have a "laptop" computer with winXP Pro, Unbuntu 8.04 and Debian 5 (I think it is 5), installed. With a recent electricity supply failure, I ran an orderly shutdown on the computer. Since that shutown, each tim

Re: GRUB failure

2011-07-01 Thread teddieeb
I have a "laptop" computer with winXP Pro, Unbuntu 8.04 and Debian 5 (I think it is 5), installed. I will also add, I am not sure which partition you had grub booting from. Ubuntu or Debian... But the version of grub that was installed is important. Debian Testing or "Wheezy" is using G

Re: GRUB failure

2011-07-01 Thread teddieeb
Bret Busby Ask: Hello. I have a "laptop" computer with winXP Pro, Unbuntu 8.04 and Debian 5 (I think it is 5), installed. With a recent electricity supply failure, I ran an orderly shutdown on the computer. Since that shutown, each time that I reboot the computer, it takes me to the GRUB promp

GRUB failure

2011-07-01 Thread Bret Busby
Hello. I have a "laptop" computer with winXP Pro, Unbuntu 8.04 and Debian 5 (I think it is 5), installed. With a recent electricity supply failure, I ran an orderly shutdown on the computer. Since that shutown, each time that I reboot the computer, it takes me to the GRUB prompt (rather tha

Re: grub failure after recent dist-upgrade

2009-02-21 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 21 Feb 2009 09:27:33 +0100 Peter Robinson wrote: Hello Peter, > I had the same problem and solved by commenting out the set and search > lines in grub.cfg: Which is just what I did. At least I know the problem is not unique to me. Finally, please don't Cc: me. I subscribe to the lis

Re: grub failure after recent dist-upgrade

2009-02-21 Thread Peter Robinson
Brad Rogers wrote: On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:36:42 -0800 "Todd A. Jacobs" wrote: Hello Todd, error: unknown command 'initrd' How can I recover from this? First, you need to get the system up. Do this by editing the boot command so the first two lines get removed. That is, the one

Re: grub failure after recent dist-upgrade

2009-02-20 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:36:42 -0800 "Todd A. Jacobs" wrote: Hello Todd, > error: unknown command 'initrd' > How can I recover from this? First, you need to get the system up. Do this by editing the boot command so the first two lines get removed. That is, the ones that begin set root= & s

grub failure after recent dist-upgrade

2009-02-20 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I'm running 2.6.26-1-amd64 on a 64-bit system, and am primarily running a testing system with a few other packages mixed in from sid and experimental. After a recent dist-upgrade, grub 1.96 now fails to boot with: error: unknown command 'initrd' This happens for all kernels on the boot parti

Re: grub failure

2006-07-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 01:31:42PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: > Dual boot, debian etch i386, filesystem reiserfs 3.6, today did not start: > > ---Grub loading, please wait... > Error 21 means a disk could not be accessed, or found, or was not properly reported by the bios. from info grub 21

grub failure

2006-07-31 Thread Francesco Pietra
Dual boot, debian etch i386, filesystem reiserfs 3.6, today did not start: ---Grub loading, please wait... Error 21 Power switched off and given again: started perfectly. Any guess thank you francesco pietra -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub