On 13/08/13 20:25, [email protected] wrote: Some info/instruction on reinstalling grub there:
http://www.av8n.com/computer/htm/grub-reinstall.htm Sounds pretty much like what I have done in the past to reinstall grub. Cheers Daniel. > I have just tried an install with the DVD's kindly sent to me a little > while back and on reboot after the install no boot loader is present > although grub was selected. > > I have no experience with grub at all, lilo being my main stay. I may say I > am very biased here I greatly dislike these so called "inteligent" programs > with almost no config available, great when they work but a total pain as > now as there appears to be no way to recover from the situation. > > I followed the screens on the install, it did not ask the id of the boot > disk (as the lilo install does) and it certainly did not find it as the mbr > still has the lilo 1st stage loader on it. > > Does the grub install work on debian 7.0.0...............help!!!!!!!! > > Is it possible to reinstall/install grub from the rescue prompt? > How does one tell it which is the hard disk with the systems mbr on it? > > Just in case the system is a newish Gigabyte X79-UD5 mb, I have not set it > up with the efi boot system (or whatever they call the new boot system). On > the install the grub install did complain no efi partition was avaible, the > previous debian/windows XP install using lilo did work OK, I assume grub > should also work OK under the same circumstances. > > Lindsay > _______________________________________________ > luv-main mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
