Re: Boot Problem

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

Stephen P. Molnar wrote:

> I have just installed a new SSD in my 64 bit Stretch platform.

  what do you mean by "installed"?  there is a lot
of difference between plugging it in vs. plugging 
it in and putting something on it.

  what did you do?

  give details.  we don't know what you did nor can
we read your mind.


> When I boot the machine I get the following error:
>
> error: file '/boot/grub/i386-pc/normalmod' not found
> Entering rescue mode .. . .
> grub rescue>_
>
> Pressing Contro-Alt-Delete reboots the system.  Pressing Delete , or 
> F-8,during the post opens the ASUS UFEI Bios Utility - EZ mode 
> (actually, F-8 opens the boot selection).
>
> Clicking  on P0 boots the machine normally.

  so you can boot the system into Stretch ok.


> Here are the drives:
>
> blkid
> /dev/sda1: UUID="b780b7fb-05a5-4996-8ad5-cd2a578bb4f2" TYPE="ext4" 
> PARTUUID="a14552f2-01"
> /dev/sda5: UUID="2e6c48ee-b1b5-441e-ae90-549f5e3b6134" TYPE="swap" 
> PARTUUID="a14552f2-05"
> /dev/sdc1: UUID="1f363165-2c59-4236-850d-36d1e807099e" TYPE="ext4" 
> PARTUUID="eb2be395-01"
> /dev/sdb1: UUID="900b5f0b-4f3d-4a64-8c91-29aee4c6fd07" TYPE="ext4" 
> PARTUUID="0bc7db76-01"
> /dev/sdb5: UUID="7c386aca-a547-475f-8616-f7664f93c595" TYPE="swap" 
> PARTUUID="0bc7db76-05"
> /dev/sdd1: UUID="51941391-3c92-4370-a330-270d2c4d7003" TYPE="ext4" 
> PARTUUID="7809855e-01"
>
> Sda1 is the Stretch OS (P0), sdd1 is the new drive. I had no problems 
> installing the new drive, nor making it known to Stretch.

> My intention 
> is to install Buster on sdd1, while maintaining Stretch on sda1 for a 
> hopefully short period of time.  I should note that I have added the 
> i386 applications to /etc/apt/sources.list as a number of my 
> applications require i386 libraries.

  i have no idea how to run a mixed system like that
so you are out of my range of experience there.

  i just use the amd64 debs.

  if it was running ok before i see no reason why you'd
add that now?


> I have absolutely no idea as to why the new boot error, nor the solution:
>
>      1. What might be the source of the error?
>      2. More importantly, what is the solution, would running 
> update-grub solve the problem?
>
> Comments will be appreciated.

  since we don't know what you've done i don't know
for sure what has changed.  running update-grub may
make no change at all.

  the more you can say what you did the better 
context we have for replying.


  songbird