On 05/22/2013 04:45 PM, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote:
Thank uou
Frank and Klaus. As you surmised, it was a typo : I meant to
say /dev/sda to be sure I repeated the grub-install
and the
version given by bootinfoscript if 1.99 though AI have
2.00-14. When I use grub rescue and type set
prefixs=(hd1,msdos1)/boot/grub and then root=(hd1,msdos1)
and insmod normal it gives unknown file system error.
On 05/22/2013 05:21 PM, Sebastian
Canagaratna wrote:
Further to the questions I raised, I downloaded
supergrub2 and I was
able to access the system.However, after starting
3.9.3.slh-1 and
running update-grub and grub-install /dev/sda0 ( the
installation
finished. No error reported) still, on rebooting, come
to the same error
I think you should be installing grub in /dev/sda, the
MBR not a partition.
Actully fdisk -l shows the Master Boot Record (MBR) on
/dev/sda1. This is the standard place for it for ext type
formats. It and the partition table are in the first 512 bytes of
first partition. I formatted both systems months ago and have had
no trouble until now. All test show that there is nothing wrong
with the partitioning. Further, I did nothing to the disk
partitions during the update. As I said earlier, my other
identical system works fine and the bad system only started giving
trouble after a fairly massive update.
Sebastian, Your root="(hd0,msdos1)" should be 'set
root="(hd0,msdos1)".' I don't know whether that is a typo or
whether leaving off set would make a difference but my information
says it should be "set root".
Gary R.
Oops:
We have 2 threads going that are very similar. I posted this to the
wrong one. It may still be useful.