On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Bill Barry <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 1:09 PM, Bill Barry <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Which version of grub are you using? What does > > grub-probe -V > > say? > > It looks like an error message from the old legacy grub. It might be > > having problems rebooting with the drives changing names between > > reboots. If it is the old grub, your problems might be fixed by > > upgrading grub to grub2. > > > > Bill > > Another possibility is that you have two disk, one of which has an old > version of grub on it and occasionally your system is trying to boot > from the disk with the old grub on it. This can be fixed by installing > the correct grub on all the disks. Make sure you have booted correctly > to your normal working system and run > sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc > choose the defaults until you get to the screen for Grub install > devices: and put a check mark in front of all the disks /dev/sda , > /dev/sdb, not the partitions /dev/sda1 etc. > > Bill > You can see from my other answer that there is only one disk powered when booting. Other than bringing my system into the 21st century, is there a benefit in changing to Grub 2? Will the procedure you outline do that for my system which has the old grub? Thanks, -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
