Re: GRUB2 boot issue
On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 14:36 -0500, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 12:26 PM, John Foster jfoster81...@gmail.com wrote: Here's a new one for you GRUB2 gurus. I left my office attended by my 2 (5 7 yr. old very curious) grandsons. When about 3 minutes later I returned, my system ( which is a multiple boot of Debian Linux SID, Windows 7 Pro, Ubuntu 9,) had been rebooted form Windows7 to the GRUB2 rescue mode stalled there. I figure one of them pushed the soft reboot button restarted the system. Now I had it set to boot to Debian Linux automatically, but as I recall the GRUB2 boot-loader had beside the previous listed OS's, another load item on the menu. Which was GRUB2 rescue mode; Now I have been unable to boot the system into anything except the rescue mode The error message given is: GRUB can't find required file: x.updates. Now as I,m at work not looking at the exact message returned, I may be off a bit on the verbiage. If anyone has any ideas I would appreciate a reply to me directly as sometimes the filters get list replies. There's never any grub2 rescue mode entry; you must mean recovery mode, which boots into single-user mode. This is the grub2 manual resolution: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#GRUB-only-offers-a-rescue-shell (By the way, your reply-to address is John Foster@liszt.debian.org rather than your sending address, jfoster81...@gmail.com.) OK I read the link info I do not think that an incorrect installation is the issue. I used Super Grub2 disk to start my Debian Linux mixed Sid/squeeze installation Linux works fine from there as I'm using it to send this. exact message that I get when grub2 tries to boot the computer is; rescue error: symbol not found: 'grub_xputs' so the system has defaulted to drop me into the rescue mode as there is a file needed for proper bootin, missing. I did try completely removing all of the grub-common everything with grub2 or grub in the name or description, Then reinstalled everything. I still having the same problem. thanks Tom for the tip re e-mail; I have it set this way so I will get my mail regardless of whether or not I get a list feed. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1292860298.4209.15.ca...@beast.johnwfoster.info
Re: GRUB2 boot issue
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:51 AM, John W Foster jfoster81...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 2010-12-19 at 14:36 -0500, Tom H wrote: On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 12:26 PM, John Foster jfoster81...@gmail.com wrote: Here's a new one for you GRUB2 gurus. I left my office attended by my 2 (5 7 yr. old very curious) grandsons. When about 3 minutes later I returned, my system (which is a multiple boot of Debian Linux SID, Windows 7 Pro, Ubuntu 9,) had been rebooted form Windows7 to the GRUB2 rescue mode stalled there. I figure one of them pushed the soft reboot button restarted the system. Now I had it set to boot to Debian Linux automatically, but as I recall the GRUB2 boot-loader had beside the previous listed OS's, another load item on the menu. Which was GRUB2 rescue mode; Now I have been unable to boot the system into anything except the rescue mode The error message given is: GRUB can't find required file: x.updates. Now as I,m at work not looking at the exact message returned, I may be off a bit on the verbiage. If anyone has any ideas I would appreciate a reply to me directly as sometimes the filters get list replies. There's never any grub2 rescue mode entry; you must mean recovery mode, which boots into single-user mode. This is the grub2 manual resolution: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#GRUB-only-offers-a-rescue-shell (By the way, your reply-to address is John Foster@liszt.debian.org rather than your sending address, jfoster81...@gmail.com.) OK I read the link info I do not think that an incorrect installation is the issue. I used Super Grub2 disk to start my Debian Linux mixed Sid/squeeze installation Linux works fine from there as I'm using it to send this. exact message that I get when grub2 tries to boot the computer is; rescue error: symbol not found: 'grub_xputs' so the system has defaulted to drop me into the rescue mode as there is a file needed for proper bootin, missing. I did try completely removing all of the grub-common everything with grub2 or grub in the name or description, Then reinstalled everything. I still having the same problem. thanks Tom for the tip re e-mail; I have it set this way so I will get my mail regardless of whether or not I get a list feed. Thanks! You're welcome about the reply-to address. I thought that the resolution of the grub rescue prompt was the above routine (which I've used once). It seems that it works if there's no error message (and perhaps for some/all error messages other than symbol not found: 'grub_xputs'...). I've googled 'grub_xputs' and there are Debian and Ubuntu bug reports about it, the resolution of which is the re-installation of grub. How did you re-install? Did you boot from a CD, chroot, and purge and re-install grub-common and grub-pc? (You could've just - theoretically - run grub-install /dev/sdX after chrooting.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlkti=vstrhreb0ko8ugqmvbdhgxukegww2vp6wz...@mail.gmail.com
GRUB2 boot issue
Here's a new one for you GRUB2 gurus. I left my office attended by my 2 (5 7 yr. old very curious) grandsons. When about 3 minutes later I returned, my system ( which is a multiple boot of Debian Linux SID, Windows 7 Pro, Ubuntu 9,) had been rebooted form Windows7 to the GRUB2 rescue mode stalled there. I figure one of them pushed the soft reboot button restarted the system. Now I had it set to boot to Debian Linux automatically, but as I recall the GRUB2 boot-loader had beside the previous listed OS's, another load item on the menu. Which was GRUB2 rescue mode; Now I have been unable to boot the system into anything except the rescue mode The error message given is: GRUB can't find required file: x.updates. Now as I,m at work not looking at the exact message returned, I may be off a bit on the verbiage. If anyone has any ideas I would appreciate a reply to me directly as sometimes the filters get list replies. -- John Foster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d0e405b.8010...@gmail.com
Re: GRUB2 boot issue
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 12:26 PM, John Foster jfoster81...@gmail.com wrote: Here's a new one for you GRUB2 gurus. I left my office attended by my 2 (5 7 yr. old very curious) grandsons. When about 3 minutes later I returned, my system ( which is a multiple boot of Debian Linux SID, Windows 7 Pro, Ubuntu 9,) had been rebooted form Windows7 to the GRUB2 rescue mode stalled there. I figure one of them pushed the soft reboot button restarted the system. Now I had it set to boot to Debian Linux automatically, but as I recall the GRUB2 boot-loader had beside the previous listed OS's, another load item on the menu. Which was GRUB2 rescue mode; Now I have been unable to boot the system into anything except the rescue mode The error message given is: GRUB can't find required file: x.updates. Now as I,m at work not looking at the exact message returned, I may be off a bit on the verbiage. If anyone has any ideas I would appreciate a reply to me directly as sometimes the filters get list replies. There's never any grub2 rescue mode entry; you must mean recovery mode, which boots into single-user mode. This is the grub2 manual resolution: http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#GRUB-only-offers-a-rescue-shell (By the way, your reply-to address is John Foster@liszt.debian.org rather than your sending address, jfoster81...@gmail.com.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktik=r5iqo9ha-ooing=cvvlaqwlcpbs5d=2m4...@mail.gmail.com
