Re: Debian release tea party

Chris Bannister <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.dunedin.general
Message-ID <20130506023358.GA30052@tal>
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 09:32:54AM +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Alex King <[email protected]> wrote:
> > What: Debian release tea-party
> > When: 3-5pm today, Sunday.
> 
> I spent the afternoon trying to 'fix' my over-complicated desktop
> machine after a double upgrade from Ubuntu left it reeling ... now I
> have what appears to be a nice shiny Debian 7 but a thoroughly broken
> Grub rescue> prompt and I can't coax it into life at all. Guess I'll
> have to get a liveCD from somewhere and have another go, the installer
> image doesn't give me quite enough to figure out how to fix the
> problem ...

IIRC, there is a rescue mode builtin to the installer, at least in
previous installers. 

It is a bit misleading at first; you think you are going to reinstall,
but it eventually comes to an option to fix/reinstall grub.

Can anyone confirm/deny this?

-- 
"If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people
who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the 
oppressing." --- Malcolm X

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