Re: Debian release tea party
Chris Bannister <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.org.user-groups.linux.dunedin.general |
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| Message-ID | <20130506045132.GA30955@tal> |
On Mon, May 06, 2013 at 02:33:58PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > 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? Found this: http://live.debian.net/cdimage/release/stable+nonfree/i386/iso-hybrid/debian-live-7.0.0-i386-rescue+nonfree.iso Seems a bit weird to have a special rescue DVD, and at only 758M (seems like a waste of a DVD to me). Ahh! thats right, you can: wget "http://live.debian.net/cdimage/release/stable+nonfree/i386/iso-hybrid/debian-live-7.0.0-i386-rescue+nonfree.iso" then dd if=debian-live-7.0.0-i386-rescue+nonfree.iso of=/dev/sdx bs=2048 (not sure if the bs=2048, is correct/necessary) where sdx is your unwanted USB stick, you should then be able to boot from the USB stick. I think F12 brings up the boot options screen? This, of course, assumes you have a working Linux system; which seems unlikely if you are wanting a rescue disk. :( -- "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/