Re: Reboot and all I get is a grub prompt.

[Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>]

On Mon 05 Dec 2011 at 08:44:51 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:

> When I run update-grub, it appears to be working but ends with
> something akin to an error:
> 
>   root # update-grub
>   Generating grub.cfg ...
>   Found background image:
>   /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-grub.png
>   Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.0.0-1-686-pae
>   Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-3.0.0-1-686-pae
>   Cannot find list of partitions!  (Try mounting /sys.)
>   done
> 
> So its not clear if it has finished properly or what.

OSs on other partitions will not be found.

> Apparently /sys is not populated in a chroot, or there is something I
> needed to run before chroot.

mount -o bind /sys <mount_point>/sys