Re: Strange Boot Behavior

[songbird <songbird@anthive.com>]

Stephen P. Molnar wrote:

> I have Debian 12 installed on my main computer.

  how old is this machine?  how old are the SSDs?

  do you power it down completely often?  does it have a
bios battery that has finally reached its EOL?

  were any updates applied recently that touched 
GRUB?


> This morning, when I booted the computer , I got "GRUB ERROR>"  and the 
> message that there was no operating system on the boot SSD.
>
> Fortunately, I have Debian 12 installed on two SSD's on the platform. I 
> shut down the computer, restarted it with F2 to open the BIOS and 
> selected  the other SSD with Debian. When GRUB came up I was presented 
> the normal selection screen, The booting process continued normally with 
> the SSD that gave me the "GRUB ERROR>" initially.
>
> Then I shut down the system and restarted it. Normal start up!!!!!!!!!!
>
> Does anyone have any ideal as to what might be going on (yes, I know an 
> impossible question)?

  hopefully nothing serious, but ...  make sure your backups
are functional.


  songbird