On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:40 PM, Bill Barry <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 Spacebar was it! I must have tried most of the keys to no avail. (Why not any key, or a msg. saying which key to use??!) I am so glad you remembered. -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
