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Post subject: another grub1>grub2 upgrade gone wrong
 Posted: 08.01.2012, 23:05
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Friends:
Thanks to Piper's kind advice a month ago, grub2 is working properly on my #2-rig.
So today, seeing grub 1.97 on my #1-rig, I tried to upgrade it to grub2.
"Wenn es dem Esel zu wohl ist, geht er aufs Eis."
Now I'm stuck in glue again. At "grub loading" I get "Entering rescue mode... error: file not found grub rescue>"
I followed the manual's prescribed process:
"Upgrading from Grub Legacy to Grub 2"
I completed step#1.
After step#2, system reported "grub-gfxboot" wasn't found.
And I moved on to step#3; and that didn't work.
And I rebooted.And got the above error.
So, with usual apologies for my Dummheit: was nun  ?
I have aptosid livedisk 2011-02.
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Post subject: Re: another grub1>grub2 upgrade gone wrong
Posted: 08.01.2012, 23:21
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kerm wrote:
And I moved on to step#3; and that didn't work.
And I rebooted.And got the above error.
Rebooting helps to fix windows or to boot into a new kernel (but that's not really needed either: kexec). In Linux/Debian/aptosid a reboot will fix nothing - in reality it is the worst thing you can do is reboot if something hasn't worked. Beside that you haven't told us what hasn't worked…
Anyway: Scroll a bit down on the manual page, it tells you how to recover from a broken grub2. |
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Post subject: RE: another grub1>grub2 upgrade gone wrong
Posted: 08.01.2012, 23:21
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Probably you should reinstall the whole grub2 thing ...
Grub overwritten
Btw if something fails it's always important to know the error messages dont keep them secret. |
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Posted: 09.01.2012, 22:03
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@DonKult, @x-un-i:
Thank you very much for replying.
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Btw if something fails it's always important to know the error messages dont keep them secret.
On fait son possible.
I take it you both suggest I follow the manual's "using chroot" routine to restore grub. And so I've begun.
After I ran
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mount --bind /proc /mnt/aptosid-chroot/proc
-came the reply:
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mount: mount point /mnt/aptosid-chroot/proc does not exist
SVP: what does that mean? (And how should I continue?)
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Posted: 09.01.2012, 22:19
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kerm wrote:
And so I've begun.
After I ran
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mount --bind /proc /mnt/aptosid-chroot/proc
-came the reply:
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mount: mount point /mnt/aptosid-chroot/proc does not exist
SVP: what does that mean? (And how should I continue?)
kerm
did you have done before... with the right device there not necessarly .. sda2 ...??
Code:
mkdir /mnt/aptosid-chroot
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/aptosid-chroot
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Posted: 10.01.2012, 00:31
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@ x-un-i:
Thank you for your patience.
You asked:
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did you have done before... with the right device there not necessarly .. sda2 ...??
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mkdir /mnt/aptosid-chroot
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/aptosid-chroot
Yes. Here is what has happened so far. sda6 is my root partition.
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root@aptosid:~# mkdir /mnt/aptosid-chroot
root@aptosid:~# mount /dev/sda6 /mnt/aptosid-chroot
root@aptosid:~# mount --bind /proc /mnt/aptosid-chroot/proc
mount: mount point /mnt/aptosid-chroot/proc does not exist
root@aptosid:~#
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Posted: 10.01.2012, 17:10
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Please check that /dev/sda6 is the root partition of your aptosid-install
after have it mounted
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cat /mnt/aptosid-chroot/etc/aptosid-version
if it shows something interesting then you please verify that the directory proc under /mnt/aptosid-chroot/ exists.
In that case go further entering the commands carefully otherwise you did not have mounted your aptosid install partition. |
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Post subject: another grub1>grub2 upgrade gone wrong
Posted: 08.02.2012, 00:14
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x-un-i:
I apologize for my long silence.
It pains me to confess such stupidity. But. I had three hdds in my machine, and I was mistakenly trying to fix grub on the wrong hdd.
I know now I had only to look at fstab. But I didn't know at time I was trying to work the fix.
I've decided (possibly wrongly again) that I may have created further complications doing that.And I've chosen to do a fresh install on a new hdd.
I thank you very much for your generosity in trying to help.
I'm now going to ask in another thread for some clarification to the "Moving Home" guide in the manual.
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