On 9 August 2012 12:38, Brian van den Broek <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I am feeling more and more like I've reverted to noobdom and I'm very > appreciative of all the recent advice/feedback I've got. Let me try > your collective patience again. Apologies that this is long, but a > shorter email seems likely to result in requests for more information.
<detailed tale of woe snipped> Hi all, I had a dreadful day of multiple installs with multiple configurations of encrypted volumes and LVMs from both the 64bit versions of the Debian 6.04 XFCE Live CD and the Debian 6.05 LXDE + XFCE CD1, all resulting in booting to a grub rescue prompt, followed by several hours of reading and trying to use rescue CD's to restore the mbr (identi.ca advice suggested corrupted mbr). None of that worked, and the grub rescue prompt continued to mock me. I decided to try one last reinstall, this time with a USB stick with the debian-wheezy-DI-b1-amd64-netinst.iso, thinking that perhaps the new installer might fair better. My heart sank when I was confronted by a novel grub error. (Sadly, I didn't write it down. Something like not finding a bootable X for some value of X.) I rebooted once again not expecting anything to have changed, but still thinking it good methodology to verify. (Nevermind the inconsistency with the bad methodology of omitting to write down the error string.) Imagine my utter surprise when I did get a GRUB menu and managed to boot into Debian. (Then imagine my sorrow for the lost day when I realized I likely was this trivial step away from finishing it all hours ago.) I can't think straight at the moment and simply cannot imagine why trying to boot off of a usb stick would give GRUB the smack in the head it needed. But, it seems it did. Thanks again for all the help and advice the last few days and a special thank you to Mathieu for his very generous offer earlier in the thread. Best, Brian vdB _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
