Re: Question about GRUB recovery using Debian 7.x LiveCD
On Wed 04 Mar 2015 at 14:32:19 -0600, David Wright wrote:
> Quoting Brian (ad44@cityscape.co.uk):
> > On Wed 04 Mar 2015 at 16:13:03 +0000, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> >
> > > On Wednesday 04 March 2015 16:03:28 Bret Busby wrote:
> > > > Neither that screen, nor the one that showed the partitions,
> > > > identified using the UUID's (which, to a user like me, in the context
> > > > of trying to restore the GRUB multi-OS selection bootloader, are
> > > > meaningless, and, as useful as listing the subatomic particles, or the
> > > > elements of the Periodic Table), showed the labels that had been set
> > > > for the partitions, and so, did not show into which partition, each of
> > > > the operating systems had been installed.
> > >
> > > So you had, in fact, set labels for the partitions? And it just wasn't
> > > showing them?
> >
> > I think he is saying the partitions were identified (as they are) but
> > not with UUIDs or LABELs. It was an expectation.
>
> Hmm. Well it's a long sentence again, but I thought he said they *were*
> identified with UUIDs, the 32 character strings which he didn't
> originally recognise as such. Going back a few postings, OP wrote:
>
> "I also note that (after taking about an hour, to remove the Debian 7.8
> installer iso "removable media" disk from the computer, that, like
> Ubuntu, the Debian 7.6 LXDE LiveCD does not, using the file manager,
> show Properties for partitions, and, in opening a partition, to show
> its contents, whows at the top of the tab,
> as the partition identifier, a string about 32 characters long,
> that has no relevance
> or application, to the Debian Linux 7.8 installation iso image, rescue
> mode, list of partitions, from which to select, to install the root
> system."
This is what was seen when a Live CD was running.
The first quoted section above was (I think) what was seen when the
installer was booted in rescue mode.
Two different things; neither of any great relevance to solving his
problem.
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