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Re: GRUB2 error



On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Gary Roach <gary719_list1@verizon.net> wrote:
> On 05/21/2013 04:24 PM, Gary Roach wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> My wife let her Debian machine get over 450 packages behind before I caught
> it. What a mess. The last problem is that when booting up the Welcome to
> Grub notice appears and then:
>         error:file not found
>         Entering rescue mode
>         grubrescue>
>
> If I run "ls" I find that the root directory should be (hd0,msdos1) and that
> grub is under the /boot directory. Therefore I run:
>         set prefix="(hd0,msdos1)/boot/grub"  <enter>
>         set root="(hd0,msdos1)"  <enter>
>         insmod normal  <enter>
>         normal   <enter>
<Snip>

Gary,
I don't know if this matters or not but some of the output above made
me curious.  What file system are you using?  Is your /etc/fstab
defined correctly?


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Shane D. Johnson
IT Administrator
Rasmussen Equipment


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