Re: Unable too boot after fresh install of latest "testing"
On 10.11.2014 16:01, Marko Randjelovic wrote:>
> Boot from Install CD/DVD and choose rescue mode. Than you can review
> grub options and reinstall. Alternatively, you can try lilo.
I have tried rescue mode and various "grub-install" and "update-grub"
commands
"update-grup" makes no difference.
With EFI enabled in bios (dual mode legacy/efi), grub gave me this
message (after I ran install-grub /dev/sdc from rescue mode):
error: /grub/i386-pc/normal.mod not found
I disabled EFI in bios, and reinstalled. Got blinking cursor. Entered
rescue mode and issued install-grub /dev/sdc. After reboot, I finally
got the grub boot prompt (with a frame of alpha-signs). However, when I
tried to boot Debian, I got this error:
error: can't find command `['.
error: can't find command `['.
error: can't find command `search'.
error: can't find command `echo'.
error: can't find command `linux'.
error: can't find command `echo'.
error: can't find command `initrd'.
Press any key to continue...
Then I gave up installing on /dev/sdc and installed on /dev/sda, with
defaults (encrypted disk on top of LVM, /boot in separate ext4
partition). After reboot, all I got was the blinking cursor...
I installed Mint on /dev/hda (to get a working desktop, and to check if
the hardware was still working) and left /dev/hdc for further research
on the problem.
Since it worked before, and works with an older installer (Linux Mint),
it looks, walks and quacks like a bug. It seems to me like the installer
don't install the grub boot-loader on this machine. When I ran
grub-install from the rescue mode (with / mounted as / and /boot mounted
on it's partition), grub was installed indeed, but not correctly.
I am eager to get my machine running again with testing, so I'm
available to trouble-shoot further. However, I'm no expert on grub. I
need some suggestions on how to proceed. (I spend a whole day googling
and trying different suggestions that came up in the results).
> Is your boot partition not encrypted?
/boot is not encrypted.
Jarle
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