> Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2019 at 12:21 PM > From: "Paul Rogers via blfs-support" <blfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> > To: blfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org > Cc: "Paul Rogers" <paulgrog...@fastmail.fm> > Subject: Re: [blfs-support] More weirdness in this install > > > problem(s) I have is that I can no longer boot into the debian > > installation, it seems that when I installed grub it wiped out access > > to debian, even though the grub menu etries are still on the drive, and > > the drive is the one that boots lfs/blfs. It gives the error that it > > can not mount /root and the debian install is also lvm2. > > Christopher, I admit I haven't followed this thread. But if you have a > running (B)LFS system, you might try getting & installing osprober. It will > look on your drive(s) and construct a GRUB menu with initrds for whatever it > finds. I think that's a mess, but as a temporary emergency substitute menu > (save your old one) it might get you out of a jam. > > If I were to get in a major jam as I imagine you have, I'd just pull the > drive out of the box and make it a slave in some other box where I have > everything--but then I can see 9 boxes from where I sit, touch 3, and if you > don't have a spare, you couldn't. > > -- > Paul Rogers > paulgrog...@fastmail.fm > Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." > (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) > -- > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page >
Hello Paul, I have managed to get myself out of the mess finally. I have also just restored the menu item for debian now that I know for certain exactly which drive grub is living on, namely one of my ssd drives. and it boots. Both debian and fedora use os-prober, and yes the menu entries are a mess with the way it does things. I had to strip out all the fluff that they put in their entries so that I could get the entries to play nicely on lfs/blfs. This is why I do not like changing things once they are working. It was only due to me wanting to have flexible partitioning and moving to lvm2 that this headache happend. I just love it when after years of working perfectly the kernel developers throw a curve ball and change something, as I never had to use the two additional kernel options before, but that could also be because it has always been needed for an lvm2/initrd setup. I only have one computer. I do not have the room for anymore. When I was a systems administrator for a webhosting company I had three so that I could test various things before making the change on the live servers. Regards, Christopher. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
