I tried rebooting half a dozen times, but could never get past the error screen. From the grub> prompt if you just hit enter you get a list of possible commands. None are useful. I mean, once I had to edit a menu item in Grub and it was a snap. Once I had a bad grub install and I got a list of commands including things like grub-update. But now the list of commands is useless.
I could reinstall Unstable, but likely I'd end up at the same point. Bah. I tried the live CD of Fedora 12 this morning. It crashed with a kernel panic after loading - although sometimes I could get it to run for half an hour. But the interface is slick and it connected my bluetooth mouse without a hiccup. So rather than reinstall Debian Unstable I'm going to install Fedora 12. Maybe after installation I can do an update to fix the kernel panics. If not, then maybe it's time to go back to Ubuntu. On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 18:42:46 -0800 Erik Lane <[email protected]> dijo: > I recently had an install of GRUB2 fail the same way. But I just > ignored it and rebooted and it actually started working. It's been > working ever since, so I really have no idea why, but you might try > rebooting a couple of times and see if it figures itself out. > > Just a thought... > > On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 6:40 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > > I just spent the past hour and a half installing Debian Unstable. I > > used the minimal CD image, then Expert Mode. > > > > When I got completely to the end it wanted to install the boot loader. > > The first option was Grub 2. Although I am unfamiliar with Grub 2, I > > decided to let it go ahead. And then it announced that grub-update had > > failed. > > > > I went back and told it to use Grub 1.5, but that failed also. > > > > The next choice was LILO. I know nothing of LILO, but I figured I could > > change it to Grub later. I answered all the questions and it appeared > > to install without error. > > > > When I rebooted I got a screen that says: > > > > Gnu Grub version 1.97 > > [Minimal bash-like line editing is supported ... <more> } > > grub > > > > > My guess is that Grub 2 did install, but incompletely. Grub 1.5 failed > > because it detected Grub 2.0 already installed. I installed LILO to > > sda1, not sda, think that doing so would make it easier to install Grub > > later. But LILO doesn't start if there is something in the MBR. That is > > just my WAG. > > > > As for why Grub failed initially, the hard disk had Squeeze installed > > originally. Perhaps the reformatting failed to erase the MBR containing > > parts of Grub pointing to Squeeze. > > > > So I guess I get to wipe it out and spend another hour and a half > > reinstalling. And when I finish Grub will fail again, and I'll have to > > go to Fry's and buy a new hard disk. > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
