What about those distros that are based on Debian such as Ubuntu? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kenny Hitt" <kenny@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, October 30, 2009 1:45 AM Subject: Re: Big problem after upgrading grub > Hi. you didn't say what distro. If Debian, > you are probably running Squeeze. I got bit by this problem in Sid at the > beginning of September. > The error is occurring during loading stage 2 of grub. Booting from a cd > was the only way to fix it. > If you aren't running Debian, forget this message. > > Kenny > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 06:18:23PM -0500, Cheryl Homiak wrote: >> Hi all. >> >> On one of my computers, I mistakenly thought the new grub was >> working okay and I ran the upgrade-from-legacy command. It's obvious >> I didn't know what I was doing!!! At any rate, now the computer >> won't boot and of course since I can't read the screen I have no >> idea what's going on. To make things worse, it isn't set to boot >> from cdrom so I can't just pop in a cd and try to use it; it's a >> thinkpad t23 laptop though I don't think that makes much difference >> with this problem. what I want to know is: is there anything I can >> do to get a command prompt of some kind and type something to get >> grub to try another device if that's the problem or is there >> anything else I can do or am I going to have to wait and see if >> somebody can help me try to set the cdrom to boot; for some reason >> I've had problems doing this though I've had other thinkpads and >> gotten them to reboot from cdrom. >> >> I know this was all my own fault for running the upgrade command and >> if I have to wait and try to get sighted help I'll of course do >> that, but if anybody has any suggestion of something I can try on my >> own I'll try just about anything. There is a floppy drive I can >> attach or insert but I think that would be pretty complicated; it >> might be a possibility though. >> >> >> Tia. >> >> -- >> >> Cheryl >> "Let the words of my mouth, >> and the meditation of my heart, >> be acceptable in thy sight, >> O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer." >> (Psalm 19:14 Bible KJV) >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Speakup mailing list >> Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >> http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
