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From: Paul E Condon on 31 May 2010 21:40 I'm thinking that there is a lot of worry on this list about booting a squeeze system with grub2. My boot rescue skills were never very great, but now are really quite rusty. And my rescus CD dates from 2-3 years ago. I have and use a businesscard CD for installing Squeeze, and I see a menu entry on it that purports to provide rescue functions. But... I'd like to read some tutorial material before I get into trouble. Suggestions, anyone? What are the likely causes of failure to boot with grub2? What actions can be taken to fix things when one boots from a rescue disk? etc. -- Paul E Condon pecondon(a)mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100601013139.GA4364(a)big.lan.gnu
From: Camaleón on 1 Jun 2010 07:20 On Mon, 31 May 2010 19:31:39 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I'm thinking that there is a lot of worry on this list about booting a > squeeze system with grub2. My boot rescue skills were never very great, > but now are really quite rusty. And my rescus CD dates from 2-3 years > ago. I always have at my side a copy of SGB (supergrubdisk) and System Rescue CD. > I have and use a businesscard CD for installing Squeeze, and I see > a menu entry on it that purports to provide rescue functions. But... I'd > like to read some tutorial material before I get into trouble. > Suggestions, anyone? What are the likely causes of failure to boot with > grub2? What actions can be taken to fix things when one boots from a > rescue disk? etc. There is a little explanation about rescue system at: 8.7. Recovering a Broken System http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch08s07.html.en Anyway, I agree with the wise advice can be read at the bottom of the page: "(...) Finally, note that repairing broken systems can be difficult, and this manual does not attempt to go into all the things that might have gone wrong or how to fix them. If you have problems, consult an expert." When a system breaks, there can be many causes and many configurations to take into account before start making things. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.06.01.11.13.54(a)gmail.com
From: Alan Chandler on 1 Jun 2010 07:40 On 01/06/10 02:31, Paul E Condon wrote: > I'm thinking that there is a lot of worry on this list about > booting a squeeze system with grub2. My boot rescue skills > were never very great, but now are really quite rusty. And > my rescus CD dates from 2-3 years ago. I have and use a > businesscard CD for installing Squeeze, and I see a menu > entry on it that purports to provide rescue functions. But... > I'd like to read some tutorial material before I get into > trouble. Suggestions, anyone? What are the likely causes of > failure to boot with grub2? What actions can be taken to > fix things when one boots from a rescue disk? etc. > I have laptops that don't have a CD player. These days I use 1GB SD cards and a little (cost about GBP 2) USB stick that has an SD slot in the side, so it effectively gives a USB interface to the card. I can boot one or the other (ie the card directly or through the usb converter). I am not sure of its rescue qualities, I am mainly a Debian Squeeze installer for installation of new systems. The unetbootin package seems to be the thing to create these USB/SD card systems. [note: this needs the card preformatted with a single (at least) fat32 partition and mounted]. It seems to be able to take any ..iso image of a system and create a usb boot environment from it. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4C04F060.3000809(a)chandlerfamily.org.uk
From: Hugo Vanwoerkom on 1 Jun 2010 12:00 Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 31 May 2010 19:31:39 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > >> I'm thinking that there is a lot of worry on this list about booting a >> squeeze system with grub2. My boot rescue skills were never very great, >> but now are really quite rusty. And my rescus CD dates from 2-3 years >> ago. > > I always have at my side a copy of SGB (supergrubdisk) and System Rescue > CD. > I always use SGB, but what happened to its support lately, notably GRUB2? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/hu3alj$c17$1(a)dough.gmane.org
From: Camaleón on 1 Jun 2010 13:10
On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:57:28 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Camaleón wrote: >> On Mon, 31 May 2010 19:31:39 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: >> >>> I'm thinking that there is a lot of worry on this list about booting a >>> squeeze system with grub2. My boot rescue skills were never very >>> great, but now are really quite rusty. And my rescus CD dates from 2-3 >>> years ago. >> >> I always have at my side a copy of SGB (supergrubdisk) and System >> Rescue CD. >> >> > I always use SGB, but what happened to its support lately, notably > GRUB2? Dunno, I'm still with Grub legacy (by personal decision). Grub2 is "brand- new" (in comparison to the long avialability and well tested Grub legacy) so I'll keep the old version for at least one more year. But SGB has support for Grub2, isn't it? :-? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.06.01.17.03.25(a)gmail.com |