Re: GRUB2 boot issue
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 12:26 PM, John Foster <jfoster81747@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, jfoster81747@gmail.com.)
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