Re: System broken after full-upgrade: please help!

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> writes:

> On Thu 07 Aug 2014 at 12:39:59 +0100, Brian wrote:
>
>> At the prompt issue the commands
>> 
>>   grub-install /dev/sda
>> 
>>   update-grub
>> 
>>   reboot
>
> Forget the last line.
>
>    grub-install /dev/sda
>
>    update-grub
>
>    exit
>
> Then reboot.


When I do `grub-install /dev/sda', it unfortunately says:

 Installing for i386-pc platform.
 grub-install: warning: File system `ext2' doesn't support embedding.
 grub-install: warning: Embedding is not possible.  GRUB can only be installed
  in this setup by using blocklists.  However, blocklists are UNRELIABLE and
  their use is discouraged.
 grub-install: error: will not proceed with blocklists.
 
I'm afraid, I'd better delete the system and install it again onto an `ext3'
filesystem?

Thanks,

Rodolfo