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Re: Can't boot into Lenny from Etch partition



On Wed,03.Jun.09, 22:56:55, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
 
>> Fantastic.  At boot time, I pressed `c' and got a grub command line.  Then I
>> entered those commands, the same written in menu.lst: root...,
>> kernel... etcetera.  And... after the `kernel' line and `enter', grub
>> produced the same error:
>> 
>>  Error 2: Bad file or directory type
>> 
>> As I said, those settings are copied from Lenny's menu.lst.  For a strange
>> reason they don't work from Etch, neither by hand.



Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> writes:

> Ok, next you should try the tab-completion to find the correct file 
> name. My guess is, once you have the correct filename you'll know what's 
> wrong.


Pressing the TAB key produces the same error as above.  All the keyboard is
altered under that Grub prompt: e.g.: if i want to type `-' I have to type `?'
on my keyboard.  So the problem *might* be that the TAB key is associated to
something else.  *Might*, and it's impossible to me to find what.

Rodolfo


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