Quoting Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk>:
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
We're thinking along the same lines. I tried the DVD rescue mode to reinstall GRUB. I did not think to use the netinst image. I don't know what difference that would make, however. Anyway, it did not help. I found the grub-install program the help-grub mailing list suggested. They also suggested to stay close to the distribution, so I'll let you all know what I did if I get this install to work. I'm going to boot with the first DVD and go to rescue mode. I have successfully mounted the disk. I can see all the files. I just don't know why Grub can't see them. The install disk can see them, too, obviously, because it installed the files. I think this is a grub config issue. Just a guess, though. I wish I could get a little farther along in the boot sequence so I could look at the dmesg output. Thanks, Brian. Chris