Re: Reboot and all I get is a grub prompt.
On Monday 05 December 2011 22:44:51 Harry Putnam wrote:
> Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za> writes:
> > On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 03:38:22PM +0200, Harry Putnam wrote:
> >> I'm bunrning a systemRescue cd now... but any suggestions will be most
> >> welcome.
> >
> > Booting with a live CD (like systemRescue) or the standard Debian
> > Install CD will help.
> >
> > 'chroot' to the system and do an 'update-grub'.
>
> Writing this from chroot.
>
> 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.
>
> Apparently /sys is not populated in a chroot, or there is something I
> needed to run before chroot.
>
> Anyway, I'm going to try booting manually again with ArntK's addition
> of adding the initrd line to the grub commands
you need to mount /proc, /sys and /dev before chrooting to the target
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