On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 16:42, Roger Heflin wrote:
> Fixing the boot depends on how it is broke. It could be boot block
> missing, grub stage1.5-3 pieces missing, grub.conf missing corrupted
> and/or kernel/initramfs files, missing boot flag on the partition.
>
Don't overlook hardware issues.
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>Fixing the boot depends on how it is
Fixing the boot depends on how it is broke. It could be boot block
missing, grub stage1.5-3 pieces missing, grub.conf missing corrupted
and/or kernel/initramfs files, missing boot flag on the partition.
What message does it give you when you attempt to boot up?
And in general except for a single
On Fri, 15 May 2020 17:25:04 +0200 (CEST)
"jon.inga...@telia.com" wrote:
> The question is how can I repair the boot partition?
Since you are running legacy BIOS, I think you mean the MBR at the
start of the drive, right? The command to do that is
grub-install /dev/[sda]
where sda is the name
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>I am not entirely sure how it booted after replacing the battery, bu
On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 06:21, jon.inga...@telia.com
wrote:
> I have computer which I build for 13 years ago. I have just replaced the
> battery on the motherboard and could restart
> the computer and everything worked OK. The I needed to restart the the
> computer again and it did not boot from
>
I am not entirely sure how it booted after replacing the battery, but
this sounds like a bios setting got cleared and/or reset. My 10 year
old MB defaults to EFI on a bios reset and that will cause a failure
to boot.
I would try hitting the key to allow you to choose a boot device
(varies by bios
