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

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

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

> On Fri 08 Aug 2014 at 07:25:19 +0000, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>
>>  2) I don't manage to move boot partition from sda7 (Sid) to sda6
>>  (oldstable): the commands
>> 
>>     # grub
>>     grub > root (hd0,5)
>>     grub > setup (hd0)
>>     grub > quit
>
> Your prompt is for GRUB. The commands seem to be GRUB Legacy commands.
>  
>> have the effect to break the system down again, whereas trying to reinstall
>> GRUB boot loader from the debian-installer simply have no effect.
>
> Boot into the OS on sda6. Read the documentation for the version of grub
> on it, Try 'grub-install /dev/sda'.


Thanks.  The last command (grub-install /dev/sda) succeded in putting sda6 in
master boot record, but, as the ones above with Grub prompt, has the effect of
reproducing the problem for which the present thread was started: sda7 `breaks
down' and needs beeing recovered.

I also ran `full-upgrade' again in the hope a possible bug were removed, but
nothing.  It is true that the actual `problem', about who between sda6 or sda7
should be the root partition, is not so big after all; but I'd be curious to
see what the matter is.

Thanks,

Rodolfo