Re: no boot - kinda

2018-08-24 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 25/08/2018 05:51, Glenn English wrote: This thread on grub2 is getting really scary. I'm afraid to make changes in the grub2 configs because an error could easily brick my machine. And futzing with /etc/default doesn't seem to impress grub2 a whole lot. Not concerning what I want to do,

Re: no boot - kinda

2018-08-24 Thread David Wright
On Fri 24 Aug 2018 at 17:51:20 (+), Glenn English wrote: > On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 6:57 AM wrote: > > > Indeed -- I had to do this a couple of days ago, and in my notes > > (I do take notes when doing such things: age and that) I see > > > > "Jeez. What a Rube Goldberg. Should I say Grube

Re: no boot - kinda

2018-08-24 Thread Glenn English
On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 6:57 AM wrote: > Indeed -- I had to do this a couple of days ago, and in my notes > (I do take notes when doing such things: age and that) I see > > "Jeez. What a Rube Goldberg. Should I say Grube Goldberg?" > > It's one of those cases where each step towards building

Re: no boot - kinda

2018-08-24 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 10:37:43AM +1200, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: > On 24/08/2018 06:14, Glenn English wrote: > >I'm told that grub.cfg is a place I don't want to be. Can someone tell > >me how to get grub to boot the working OS, or maybe how to fix

Re: no boot - kinda

2018-08-23 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 24/08/2018 10:41, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: On 24/08/2018 10:37, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: The new format to specify a different default kernel is horrific; it contains menu items separated with ">". You need to get the full label from your generated grub.conf because it likely contains

Re: no boot - kinda

2018-08-23 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 24/08/2018 10:37, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: The new format to specify a different default kernel is horrific; it contains menu items separated with ">". You need to get the full label from your generated grub.conf because it likely contains device UUIDs:

Re: no boot - kinda

2018-08-23 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 24/08/2018 06:14, Glenn English wrote: I'm told that grub.cfg is a place I don't want to be. Can someone tell me how to get grub to boot the working OS, or maybe how to fix the new one? The recommended way to configure Grub 2 on Debian is to edit /etc/default/grub and run update-grub .