On Jul 13, 2015 2:04 PM, "Denis Heidtmann" <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Bill Barry <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, this shows the system is using grub legacy and I am pretty sure
that
> > is what is causing your boot problems. There is a page here
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2/Upgrading
> >
> > describing how to upgrade to grub2.
> >
> > Bill
> >
> > Help!  Got through all that, up  through successful chainloading Grub 2.
> Test booted; worked fine.  So then I entered sudo
> upgrade-from-grub-legacy.  Now I am presented with a screen asking what
> devices to install Grub on: /dev/sda and /dev/sda1.  I want to select
> /dev/sda, but I can select neither!  Tab moves the highlight from the [ ]
> in front of each choice, then to OK, but I cannot make a mark in either of
> the [ ] spaces.  Note that the instruction said I would be presented with
> this choice earlier in the upgrade process at step 4, but it was not
> presented.
>
> So, how to safely recover from this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Denis
> _________________

You want to choose /dev/sda, not sda1.
Space bar should choose the one want, but I am not sure.

Bill
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