Re: Grub2 made my systeum unbootable

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2009-07-21 07:39, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> Rashly, after today's upgrade I followed the exhortation in the grub
> legacy package to move to grub2. I now cannot boot at all; I just get
> the message "Grub" and nothing more.
>
> Looking at /boot/grub with my rescue disk I see all sorts of files I
> don't recognize but no menu.lst. 

grub.cfg

> Is there any way to restore things? Please don't tell me I have to
> reinstall!

The grub 0.97 deb should still be in your cache.  Boot from a rescue 
disk (I like ubuntu, but have recently tried and like sidux), then 
(I *think*) start a chroot and dpkg -i "old grub".

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