Re: Grub update problems

2009-09-23 Thread peasthope
Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:34:23 + Frank wrote, ... update to grub2. ... boot goes nowhere. FWIIW, the install-grub2-at-update-of-Squeeze, test-boot-with-chainloading and upgrade-from-grub-legacy process was like clockwork on my old IBM NetVista. Some of the comments in /boot/grub/grub.cfg

Re: Grub update problems

2009-09-23 Thread Brian Marshall
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 08:45:25AM -0700, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2009 22:34:23 + Frank wrote, ... update to grub2. ... boot goes nowhere. FWIIW, the install-grub2-at-update-of-Squeeze, test-boot-with-chainloading and upgrade-from-grub-legacy process was like

Re: Grub update problems

2009-09-21 Thread Jack Schneider
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:54:44 +0300 Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun,20.Sep.09, 22:34:23, Frank McCormick wrote: [snip grub2 troubles] As far as I understand you fixed your problem by going back to grub1. I also don't see any reference in it to the Ubuntu which I

Re: Grub update problems

2009-09-21 Thread Charles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:54:44 +0300 Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun,20.Sep.09, 22:34:23, Frank McCormick wrote: [snip grub2 troubles] As far as I understand you fixed your problem by going back to grub1. For the

Grub update problems

2009-09-20 Thread Frank McCormick
I have googled the problem but can't make head nor tail of the solutions. During today's update on my testing machine I was asked whether I wanted to update to grub2. I said OK - after the re boot I picked the chain option. The boot went well, so I ran the update-from-grub-legacy script. Now I am

Re: Grub update problems

2009-09-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,20.Sep.09, 22:34:23, Frank McCormick wrote: [snip grub2 troubles] As far as I understand you fixed your problem by going back to grub1. I also don't see any reference in it to the Ubuntu which I have on hda3. Debian testing is on hda2. For the archives, to boot other OSes on your