Re: Postscript: Grub2 in current Squeeze
>> My usual email isn't available until Grub works again.
>> Yes, updating a system via a remote connection is probably not advisable.
>> Attempting to run aptitude to reinstall grub from the rescue mode system
>> gives this message.
>> Error opening terminal: bterm
>> How might this damage be repaired.
> There have been many threads recently about grub-pc boot problems,
> including an advisory not to update grub-pc in apt-listchanges
> during the upgrade itself.
> No doubt the grub fans out there will give me flak for saying this;
> but honestly, if it were me, I'd install lilo and forget about
> grub, at least for a while. Once you upgrade you can't easily
> go back. You either wait for the bug to be fixed, or you try a
> tricky and unsupported installation of a back-level package, or
> you install something else. In this case the solution is to install
> something else. That's what I did.
Your regular rants against grub are entertaining. :)
The OP said that his error was "BIOS Installed Successfully", which
must mean that his box had a hardware upgrade/change and that could
easily make any boot loader, linux/unix/windows/apple, lose its
bearings.
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