This is probably something really simple I've missed, but ... Sometimes I have to try and repair systems, and often it is "just" a matter of booting it with another grub and then running grub-install on the system so it can repair it's own grub. But, for something like a Debian Live disk, I can't see how to break out of the grub menu and get to specify my own kernel and initrd lines. The specific case is where I've copied all the files to a new machine or disk, so everything is there but the bootloader. Or the bootloader is damaged in some way.
Also, back in Grub 1 days, I could remember how to install grub just by mounting the filesystem, chrooting to it, and issuing a few grub commands. I've never managed to make this work with 1.99 (as currently installed with Debian). Is there a simple set of commands that will do what worked in grub 1 (going form memory here) : hd0 = /dev/sda root = (hd0,0) install (hd0) _______________________________________________ Help-grub mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-grub
