Debian :: Rolling Grub2 Back To Grub On Jessie (8)
Sep 2, 2015
I'm trying to run 'grub-install /dev/sda', it stays stuck on 'Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub' after leaving it for an hour, nothing happens. I have tried removing all Grub related packages and installing grub-legacy several times, to no avail.
The machine is quite an old one and is an offline sandbox for a friends kid who likes to tinker with older OSes. The hard disk has failed in it so I have donated an old drive to get the machine back up and running for him, as the menu.lst is a lot easier to modify than the newer grub.cfg, he would like the older grub back.
I've done a few searches particular for Debian 8, but the closest I can find is for Ubuntu here, [URL] ....
I have tried to use both the grub rescue disk and the command line listed in the link above.
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Feb 11, 2011
I added a PPA repository to my sources list in order to install a package. After a day, i decided i didn't like the software, so i uninstalled it & removed the PPA from my sources list. Everything is still working just fine.
However, Synaptic is telling me that there is a "local or obsolete" package left over from the software i had originally installed. I can't remove the package because it is something that my entire desktop depends on (in Synaptic Package Manager, when i mark it for "Complete Removal," or even just "Removal," it says that pretty much everything else will be removed with it).The package i would like to "roll back" is libgtk2.0-common (2.24.0-1.1). although i had originally got this from a PPA, a very close version is available on Debian experimental here, which is version (2.24.0-1).
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Mar 25, 2010
I, someday in my life, tried to add GUI to my installation of ubuntu server 8.04 LTS (don't ask me why, ). The problem is, I gave up before the instalation had finished, and some packages became broken. Now, everytime I try to install a new package, aptitude forces me to also install the dependencies of the previously "installed" packages, like abiword, xinit and so on.
The worst part: I don't remember what package I used to try this installation (x-window-system-core, gnome, gnome-core, {k,x,}ubuntu-desktop...).
Does anybody have any suggestions??? I must fix this as soon as possible, because this server is already at production...
The output from aptitude is listed below (just the list of suggested [imposed] packages):
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The following NEW packages will be automatically installed:
abiword abiword-common abiword-help abiword-plugins aspell aspell-en
dictionaries-common doc-base docbook-xml dvipdfmx gnome-icon-theme
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May 2, 2011
Before upgrading from Fedora 13 to v.14, VLC Media Player (v1.1.9) worked perfectly. But under Fedora 14, when I try to use it to play .AVI files that played perfectly under Fedora 13 (with the same hardware), VLC opens, stalls for a second, then closes. I've tried several files -- all of which play under Movie Player (and DID play on VLC under Fedora 13), so I know the files themselves are valid. I'd like either to have VLC work under Fedora 14, or revert back to Fedora 13 and permanently block any future upgrade to 14. easy way of rolling back to v.13 without losing my configurations or any of my installed software? Would using a Fedora 13 CD do it?
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Feb 7, 2016
i use a 3rd party boot mgr.i installed jessie over etch on my old computer & only choice i saw for grub was sda & sdb where i wanted to install on sdb9.i tried installing it from my wheezy partition & it did but i ended up with 2 boots to wheezy.so i went back to etch.
my question is how to get grub on sdb9 like it was on etch.is there a trick or did i miss a prompt? on another note, that bug where the format hangs if you try & install over an old system is a little irritating. can't believe it hasn't been fixed.
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Jun 2, 2015
I've changed my /etc/apt/sources.lst file to use "jessie" repositories instead of "wheezy". I then ran synaptic and updated everything (there were loads of packages, something like 2000 to update).
After this I rebooted. The grub menu shows as usual with the background image I'd set and the operating systems as usual (including Windows 7) however there is no longer a 5 second countdown and when I select *any* menu option, it asks for a username and password.
I don't know what username and password it's asking for as I never used to have one set!!! I did have a username and password set up so that if you wanted to edit a grub menu option so I tried that but to no avail.
I'm using MBR/BIOS not EFI.
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Mar 26, 2010
i am running lenny. and at some point my grub started exibiting a strange problem. Grub will not display all the kernels that it finds, it only displays 2 of them out of the 5 grub was finding.the system is working and boots just fine.
I attempted to install GRUB2 which went ok. since my system booted ok i removed GRUB that operation was sucessful and it deleted all the grub files that were not needed.but my system is still booting into grub with the same 2 kernels.Could someone tell me what i can do to either get grub or grub2 to work?
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Nov 19, 2015
I've been using Xubuntu consistently as my main and only distro for some time now and I'm considering coming over to Debian. My question is about the screen rolling when I run the live CD. I'll scroll with the mouse wheel on my desktop and if I scroll one way with a browser window open, for example, the entire browser toolbar area scrolls away, and scrolling the other brings back the browser toolbar area but then hides the panel. I've only run the live CD, not installed, and I use one panel on the bottom. The times I've tried the latest Debian I've deleted the stock bottom launcer panel then moved the top panel to the bottom as I traditionally do in Xubuntu. Is what I'm describing a feature ? Either way can this scroll effect be disabled ? This isn't how I would like my desktop to behave, and I'd like to try out a full install.
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Jan 16, 2011
I want to use a rolling release. I have distro hopped and know I want Debian (not a derivative like LMDE) and a rolling release. Is testing updated so you never have to do an upgrade or re-install when a new version is out? Or, do you have to add Sid Repos to never do another re-install when new version comes out?
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May 2, 2015
After some updates Jessie 8 my boot grub shows now 2 kernel versions to boot from.
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- How do I know which one is the newest and if happy with it, how to remove the older one?
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Dec 17, 2010
I get the new boot splash with the nice little rocket and all but I seriously dislike it. While I don't stare at my computer as it boots, I do happen to see it from time to time. Unfortunately, I always see this new little rocket and I wonder where my traditional Debian blue with the swirl went. Yes, I know I am using Grub-Pc now, and I have tried to edit my /etc/grub.d file by renaming the wallpaper line to my preference.
But all my config file sees is "background-grub.png" which is the little rocket ship. So, I give. What is the secret code to unlock my grub config file or do I seriously have to muck around with Plymouth in order to have a choice in the matter? Just for those of you who contemplate counseling me on better time management instead of wasting my precious time over such a silly little thing, I agree. Not to mention that I use Debian because I like to build my system.
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Feb 28, 2011
I have an old BIOS (only 149 GB detected in 160 GB drive). I have installed very few OS as a result - Windows in first 80 GB , 2 distros (20 GB each) in next 40 MB which is within the 149 GB. On issue of "update-grub" grub seems to detect all OS and generates grub.cfg. But on boot , one distro does not appear in the menu.
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Jun 23, 2011
I need is to retain an entry in GRUB2 for a second disk, which has it's own GRUB2, which I want to keep intact, and not have removed when re-installing the GRUB2 on the 1st disk...
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Nov 21, 2009
since i have installed the nvidia drivers i have lost the graphical boot and just had a bar at the bottom of the screen instead. i tried to get the graphical screen back by adding vga=795 to my /boot/grub/grub.conf but when i rebooted not only did i not get the graphical boot or the toolbar at bottom.
i got list of all the drivers and services it is starting with ok next to it. i have also since doing this lost the bit when restarting or shutting down getting the words restarting or shutting down and just get blank screen with flashing cursor. i removed the vga=795 and i still get the list of drivers/services loading.
how do i get the quiet option back. i have checked /boot/grub/grub.conf and it has the quiet in it.i have also tried running update-grub but get message command not found. i have attached the grub.conf file
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Feb 1, 2011
Is this a beta version or something? I installed this version because it came as a live cd coupled with emc2 for cnc machining. I cannot get anything to work correctly. I tried to install Mozilla thunderbird using the application manager and it is very slow. It takes forever for the menus to open. or emails and is virtually unusable. I tried to use the startup manager and it killed my grub bootloader so I needed to reinstall. I couldnt successfully use the grub2 console prompt to log back into linux even though I ollwed several tutorials for this. I tried to install the flash player plugin and it kept telling me still to install it before I could watch flash videos even though I had installed it 3 or 4 times. I just tried to install evolution mail and it cannot log into my gmail account. I tried to install swift dove which is a faster version of thunderbird and it says it is starting but then never does. I am reasonably sure I should hang in there as I have heard Ubuntu is very good as an os.
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Jun 6, 2010
I have an old laptop that I installed EasyPeasy Lucid on. I have never used Grub2 as my other Ubuntu installs still use Grub Legacy. I have studied all the tutorials which instruct that the grub.cfg file should not be edited directly.This old laptop has one of the dreaded Intel graphics chips for which the kernel automatically loads the i915 module. Of course (like a multitude of others with Intel graphics and Lucid) I booted into a black screen but knew the workaround was to enable mode setting through grubI used the
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i915.modeset=1
and added it to /etc/default/grub line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX, just after "quite splash", just
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Feb 1, 2011
A little background: my primary install is fedora 9, I'm migrating to 14, and I need to change some partitioning (but not the F9, which is first on the drive). Because I installed a newer ubuntu a while back, I've been using ubuntu's grub2. That ubuntu partition needs to be moved, so I re-installed the grub 1 from F9 onto the MBR so the F9 doesn't depend on anything else.
This is when I learned grub 1 does not support booting ext4 partitions (which ubuntu uses). However, fedora claims that you can install grub 2 and have it chainloaded from grub 1, and in fact yum install adds a line to your existing grub 1 config to do so. That seemed like a nice solution since then all I would have to do is copy some grub.conf from the ubuntu partition into the F9 grub 2.
However, chainloading grub 2 does not seem to work very well. At all. I get to the grub 2 menu, but any option I choose -- including loading the F9 partition on which both grub 1 and 2 are installed, using the default config created by the installer, leads to an "unrecognized command" error, as if grub 1 was crapping out on a grub 2 config.
Anyone else had this problem? Better yet, has anyone done this successfully with any fedora version? I can backup ubuntu and copy it back in after I re-work my partitions, but while I'd prefer not to have to use grub 2 on the MBR, I'd still like to be able to boot ubuntu.
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Mar 24, 2010
I recently decided to try out Fedora 12 (which uses Grub, not Grub2) along side my Ubuntu 9.10 which does use Grub2, and Windows 7 (yuck). I would like to use Grub2 to boot (Fedora's Grub does not recognise my 9.10 install). I've searched for a way to simply remove Grub, but have only found ways to remove it by using "the Windows fix" (fdisk /mbr or something similar) which I do not want to do, and I do not want to modify Grub's menu.lst, I just want it gone and to install Grub2. I am most likely going to remove Fedora soon anyway.
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Jun 20, 2010
I have seen grub2 wreck the system console screen display, be dependant on files in /etc/default and /etc/grub.d and be exteamely hard to configure. Even worse Grub2 settings are distribution dependent and distribution specific.
Something single like vga=nnnn in grub2 involves something akin to these commands in grub2 "set gfxmode=1280x800 set gfxpayload=keep insmod gfxterm insmod vbe" and editing far too many files. I have a steady flickering screen loaded during boot because Ubuntu's usplash image is larger than 640x480 and the vga size is 640x480. Grub2 is reluctant to be anything but user friendly.
Practical question: Does anyone know of a guide that could change grub2 back into the useful and user friendly grub (menu.lst).
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Jul 17, 2010
I had Arch Linux installed on my machine on sda1 and the Grub legacy that came on their install image on the MBA at sda/. I just did a Ubuntu update and it wanted me to do an update and me thinking grub-install referred to grub legacy, went along with it but now I have Grub2 for my boot menu. There are a few guides on restoring Grub2 I've found but how do I put Grub back on to how I had it? (I thought installing grub legacy from Arch's usb image I have would be simple and fairly automated/easy but it won't let me without doing the previous steps of partitioning drives and selecting packages to install and such so it looks like I'm going to have to do it manually which I haven't done before).
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Jan 3, 2011
I installed grub2 into a usb flash drive, the system loads grub fine, but then dumps me to the grub> prompt.The only way i can get the system to continue on is to type inCode:configfile /boot/grub/grub.cfgdoes anyone know how to get grub to auto-load the grub.cfg file?
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Dec 20, 2010
I multi-boot Windows XP and 5 Linux distros on a single hard drive. Some of the distros come and go but I keep at least two that are my daily use distros. My boot loader is grub1 located on a ext3 formatted distro. I have installed a distro that requests the partition be formatted ext4, which I did. I have been trying to edit my grub1 menu.lst so that I can chainload the ext4 distro get errors or it goes to the command line with the last word being Grub. My question is, can grub1 ext3 chainload a grub2 ext4 distro?
Here is a sample of my menu.lst
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title MEPIS at sda7, newest kernel
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda7 nomce quiet splash vga=789
initrd /boot/initrd.img
boot
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Mepis is the location of my menu.lst and is ext3 on sda7 and aptosid is the ext4 distro that I am trying to boot on sda9 and it uses grub2.
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Mar 30, 2011
My working OS uses grub, but I've just installed Sabayon 5.5, which uses grub2, on hda10. I want to keep using grub until I've got time to RTFM on grub2, so I installed the Sabayon bootloader on hda10. I should be able to point grub at the partition and boot indirectly, as with Windows, but after following the grub 'info' page I get an error message. Can anyone point to the error in the following grub script:
title hda10 110330 Sabayon 5.5
rootnoverify (hd0,9)
makeactive
chainloader +1
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Jan 22, 2011
make working entries in grub.cfg. This is taken from Ubuntu 10.10 and despite the do not edit warning, I edited it with sudo gedit /boot/grub/cfg. My computer boots into every OS in the list.
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE
#
# It is automatically generated by grub-mkconfig using templates
# from /etc/grub.d and settings from /etc/default/grub
#
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Jan 8, 2011
I have been fooling around with some of the new kernels and have ended up with a lot of options in my grub at boot. I have been checking this page:[URL].. ... and it appears hiding the entries in grub2 is not as easy as hashing them out (#) which was the convention in grub.
My problem: I have installed kernel 2.6.36 and 2.6.37 just to fool around. Neither works in anything but low-graphics as it seems the ATI graphics driver is not working in either yet. They both also kill my wireless (don't recognise the card). BUT I don't want to completely uninstall them as I'd like to keep playing around as time goes on and they develop. I'd like to just hide them from the menu.
Is there some easy way of doing this? The link I provide only gives options to make the kernel non-executable (overly complicated process) or remove the kernel completely, neither of which I want to do. This used to be simple in grub, open a file and add or remove a #, and - although overall I prefer grub2 - IMHO this 'improvement' seems a little like a backward step. Sure a million people will disagree, but .
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Jul 22, 2010
I've noticed grub2 has modular structure. Is it possible to insert other Kernel modules into grub? Or can write my own modules to insert into grub?
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Mar 10, 2010
How does Grub2 find the grub.cfg file?
I have (among others) these partitions:
/dev/sda5 'newsys' - my current system partition (Ubuntu Karmic, 64-bit)
/dev/sda2 'oldsys' - the original system partition
/dev/sda1 'boot' - mounted at /boot when running 'newsys'
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Feb 7, 2010
I' ve tried to do a iso multiboot 1gb pen stick with grub2 bootloader. I 've already readed all is it possible finding on the WWW but there are some problems i don't understand how to solve.
This is my sitution:
-koala 32bit installed on my pc with grub2 bootloader
-1gb pendrive parted as follow:
In the first fat16 partition there is installed grub2. On the second ext2 one there are iso files.
This is what i've do to install grub2 on my pen:
So i've created /boot/grub/grub.cfg file with the follow lines:
When i reboot by the pen stick, grub load up to it says me:
It seems not reding /boot/grub/grub.cfg
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Apr 20, 2010
I've been dual booting ubuntu and xp for about 2 months now. i booted this morning and all i get is this grub menu. i saw the grub vs. grub2 page but have no idea even where to start.
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Jun 8, 2010
So I have an MBR that is Grub legacy,(from HardyHeron) and I cannot edit/upgrade this MBR. (I won't get into the reasons, other than I will mention SafeBoot).
I have a new encrypted LucidLynx Linux installation on partition 4 and an unencrypted /boot partition on partition #3.
When I boot up, I get the "Error 15" Grub error, which is expected as Grub legacy is looking for /boot/grub/stage2 or something like that and /boot/grub/stage2 does not exist in my GRUB2 installation in /boot/grub.
I thought if I could make a link from the GRUB2 binary of interest to /boot/grub/stage2, then maybe the GRUB legacy would be tricked into loading the GRUB2 binary.
what is the binary of interest in the GRUB2 installation that is the main binary?
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