Re: Debian release tea party
Chris Bannister <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.org.user-groups.linux.dunedin.general |
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| 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 _______________________________________________ DunLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ethernal.org/listinfo/dunlug DunLUG Wiki - http://dunlug.kallisti.net.nz/