On 06/01/2018 01:24 PM, Haines Brown wrote:
I installed Jessie on a new disk on a new machine. I can boot it from
the GRUB menu on another disk on that machine, but when I try to boot
the new disk directly, all I get is a blinking cursor at upper left.
Holding down SHFT or ESC during post did not bring up its menu.

I tried redoing # update-grub.

I find that /boot/grub/grub.cfg has a fully developed menu in which is:

   set root='hd0,mddos2'.

This seems correct. BIOS sees this disk as number 0. In \ is a vmlinuz
symlink that points to the vmlinuz file in a broken out /boot.

Parted print shows partition 1 to be primary and flagged
bootable. Partition 2 is also primary.

It seems that one way to display the menu is to change to these values in
these lines in /etc/default/grub to:

     GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=10
     GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=false

in /etc/default/grub, but these lines do not appear and what I have
instead is:

     GRUB_DEFAULT=0
     GRUB_TIMEOUT=5


Try 'ctrl+alt+F2 to see if you can get a console.

Cheers,
--
Jimmy Johnson

Devuan Jessie - KDE 4.14.2 - AMD A8-7600 - EXT4 at sda5
Registered Linux User #380263

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