Re: grub rescue
On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 4:40 AM, lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Today I tried to install debian from a CD which dated back to 2011.
>
> Everything went fine,
>
> partition -> and then it arrived at the set up the mirror, I just choose
> default and think later changed in the /etc/apt.
> It started to download from that default ftp mirror.
> It was choked there for half a hour, the progress bar didn't proceed and it
> is said waiting ...
>
> The only thing I could do at that time, was took the CD out and reboot.
> Which I shouldn't have done that.
>
> After reboot, it showed me
>
> grub rescue>
>
> when I tried
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> grub rescue> ls (hd0, msdos5)
>
> error: unknown filesystem.
By default, (hd0, msdos5) is a swap partition.
You need to run "set" and "ls" when you're dropped to a "grub rescue"
prompt in order to determine the "set ..." commands to run.
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