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Re: Grub cannot find the disk after installation completes



On Sat 14 Feb 2015 at 15:54:26 +0000, Chris Fisichella wrote:

> Quoting Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org>:
> 
> >Does grub start a rescue shell ? If yes, what is the output of "ls" and
> >what does "set" display about prefix= and root= variables ?
>
> grub rescue>
> grub rescue> ls
> 
> returns a single blank line.

Which dowsn't look very healthy. GRUB doesn't see any disks.

> help-grub@gnu.org is recommending:

[Snip some quoted text]

> May Debian has some specific instructions how to recover bootloader in
> which case you better ask them. Also above will make grub2 primary
> bootloader; if you dual-boot you may want to install grub on partition."

I'd use a Debian netinst image in rescue mode and reinstall GRUB to the
MBR from the presented menu item.


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