Reinstalling grub?
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From: Martin Gregorie on 14 Dec 2008 17:20 On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:50:18 +0000, Will Kemp wrote: > > That's not much use when you can't boot into Linux, is it? > Yeah, I realised that about 1 sec after pushing the button, hence posting the grub home URL > Anyway, the grub info docs barely make sense to me, and i've been > running linux systems for over 13 years, so i doubt a newish user's > likely to make much sense of them. > They're not that bad. Installing from them and/or making a Grub boot floppy are not too difficult if you follow the steps: did both (in a decidedly recalcitrant K6/266 box with an awkward AMI BIOS after only about 4 years Linux experience. > I dunno about that distro's installation/recovery disk, but you can > download and burn a rescue CD from http://sysresccd.org which looks ok > to me, although i've never actually had to use it yet. > It makes sense to make a Grub boot floppy for emergencies, just as making a rescue disk each time you install or upgrade a distro is a good idea. As a bonus, since Fedora 9 the Fedora installation CD/DVD *is* also the rescue disk. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |
From: Muppet on 14 Dec 2008 17:33 Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:50:18 +0000, Will Kemp wrote: > >> That's not much use when you can't boot into Linux, is it? >> > Yeah, I realised that about 1 sec after pushing the button, hence posting > the grub home URL info grub? What does that mean? It means nothing to a Linux noob like myself :-s It doesn't matter now anyway. I downloaded 'auto super grub disk' and all is well again. Thanks for the responses.
From: Will Kemp on 14 Dec 2008 17:34 Martin Gregorie wrote: > On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:50:18 +0000, Will Kemp wrote: > >> That's not much use when you can't boot into Linux, is it? >> > Yeah, I realised that about 1 sec after pushing the button, hence posting > the grub home URL > >> Anyway, the grub info docs barely make sense to me, and i've been >> running linux systems for over 13 years, so i doubt a newish user's >> likely to make much sense of them. >> > They're not that bad. Installing from them and/or making a Grub boot > floppy are not too difficult if you follow the steps: did both (in a > decidedly recalcitrant K6/266 box with an awkward AMI BIOS after only > about 4 years Linux experience. I've had to install the boot loader from a rescue CD several times over the years and it's always been one of those things i've struggled with because it's invariably so long since i did it last that i've forgotten. It can get horribly confusing, too! >> I dunno about that distro's installation/recovery disk, but you can >> download and burn a rescue CD from http://sysresccd.org which looks ok >> to me, although i've never actually had to use it yet. >> > It makes sense to make a Grub boot floppy for emergencies, just as making > a rescue disk each time you install or upgrade a distro is a good idea. > As a bonus, since Fedora 9 the Fedora installation CD/DVD *is* also the > rescue disk. Yeah, Red Hat and derivatives have had that for many years now. -- http://SnapAndScribble.com
From: Gordon Henderson on 14 Dec 2008 17:36 In article <ucf1l.10586$cN2.6208(a)newsfe17.ams2>, Will Kemp <will(a)xxxx.swaggie.net> wrote: >Martin Gregorie wrote: >> On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:26:45 +0000, Muppet wrote: >> >>> How do I reinstall GRUB please? >> >> info grub > >That's not much use when you can't boot into Linux, is it? > >Anyway, the grub info docs barely make sense to me, and i've been >running linux systems for over 13 years, so i doubt a newish user's >likely to make much sense of them. > >Grub documentation is particularly horrible. In fact, grub is a >particularly horrible thing to have to deal with at all. It's got one or >two points that are better than lilo, but give me lilo any day, i reckon! Same here. I have not found a compelling need nor reason to change from Lilo. It's been fairly easy to boot off a Debian CD, choose the recovery option and go from there in the rare occasions I've had to do it... Gordon
From: Folderol on 14 Dec 2008 18:02
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 21:50:18 +0000 Will Kemp <will(a)xxxx.swaggie.net> wrote: > Martin Gregorie wrote: > > On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 17:26:45 +0000, Muppet wrote: > > > >> How do I reinstall GRUB please? > > > > info grub > > That's not much use when you can't boot into Linux, is it? > > Anyway, the grub info docs barely make sense to me, and i've been > running linux systems for over 13 years, so i doubt a newish user's > likely to make much sense of them. I recommend supergrub disk -- Will J G |