Re: grub rescue

[Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net>]

On 6/14/14, lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

For future reference, you may have been able to change VTs/ Linux consoles, eg:
Alt-RightArrow

and there you will often see the message "press enter to activate console".

It's only busybox, so its own learning curve, but has been known to be
useful on occasion :)

Good luck
Zenaan